A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn

Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn

As for action movies, I did Tarzan, and I'm also about to shoot Meltdown, which John Carpenter wrote.
Casper Van Dien

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
Jack Vance

At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.
Donald Pleasence

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Desiderius Erasmus

Certain remakes are great. Carpenter's The Thing is better than the original.
Alex Winter

Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema.
Dirk Benedict

How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Carlo Collodi

I do think a carpenter needs a good hammer to bang in the nail.
Oliver Reed

I like John Carpenter. I like some of his films more than others.
Guillermo del Toro

I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
Pam Grier

I never thought I was doing the same thing as directors like John Carpenter, George Romero, and sometimes even Hitchcock, even though I've been sometimes compared to those other guys. We're after different game.
David Cronenberg

I think I have more in common with a carpenter than you might think. We're putting things together.
Dave Van Ronk

I was a carpenter for a time and everybody watches what you do.
Jack Vance

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
John Leguizamo

John Carpenter created the idea of Halloween, so his vision remains the most focused and intelligently directed of the series. The directors that have followed have kept the original intent of the concept.
Donald Pleasence

My dad was a carpenter and I would work with him during the summer and umpire on the nights I wasn't playing.
Jim Evans

My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
Quincy Jones