I have always enjoyed do-it-yourself projects, .. Being in a position to actually help design and bring tools to market is an incredible opportunity. Being able to fund charities as a result is phenomenal.
TIM ALLENIn my experience, it’s all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.
More Tim Allen Quotes
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Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.
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When somebody tells you they’re not very smart, they’re saying exactly the opposite.
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My dad’s death reminds me of earthquakes – things that shake your foundation.
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Be wary of listening to stories secondhand.
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I was gone so much in my first marriage. I love the moments when I engage with my youngest daughter now. It’s not my thing to sit on the ground and play tea party, but I’ll do it because it’s a moment that will stick with me forever.
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I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I’ve never gotten over it.
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When you’re 6 or 7, your father becomes this wonderful presence in your life. I really responded to my father. And then, the very moment I realized that I loved him unconditionally, that life was going to be great just because he was in it, he was gone.
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Electricity can be dangerous. My nephew tried to stick a penny into a plug. Whoever said a penny doesn’t go far didn’t see him shoot across that floor. I told him he was grounded.
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I love doing logos. I’ve been a graphic artist all my life.
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I’m a very bad student, but a great learner.
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Real men don’t use instructions, son. Besides, this is just the manufacturer’s opinion on how to put this together.
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I wonder if to stare into the face of God will drive me crazy. (I wonder who would blink first.)
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My stepfather stepped in where no man would’ve stepped in – six kids, five of them boys – and that’s heroic.
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I think there’s a percentage that don’t realize, that don’t know that [standup] is how everything began. We planned it, we work hard, rehearsals to get this. It’s more of a it’s not just coming in there in a T-shirt and holding a microphone.
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Women are brilliant. Every woman knows how to do the weirdest thing right out of the bucket. Every woman knows how to do that Hindu head wrap with the towel out of the shower. Ever try to do that? You look like a drunk Iraqi soldier.
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