Pilot Quotes

Every pilot I've ever written, I've fallen deeply and madly in love with. It's the only way I work.
Amy Sherman-Palladino

Love, Work, Written

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
Adolf Galland

Time, Enemy, Impossible

I love the music, I love the times, so to me that was exciting personally just to play something that starts in 1986 with graduating high school, we've got a great soundtrack in the pilot.
Will Estes

Love, Music, Great

You get to actually see the music video on the TV in the pilot and we have the soundtrack playing at this big party. I thought that was sort of a cool moment, to actually have the A-Ha video is pretty cool.
Will Estes

Music, Cool, Thought

It's great if a pilot starts off great and if it doesn't start off so great it's not that big a deal: everybody's baby is born ugly. But you want to know, if given the opportunity: Where are we going? What's the story we're trying to tell?
Timothy Olyphant

Great, Trying, Big

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.
Mathias Rust

Autumn, Private, License

I don't have my pilot's licence anymore, but I'm still very political.
Mathias Rust

Political, Anymore, Licence

The second episode of any new show can be tough. You have about a week to top the well-crafted and polished pilot episode that was written over six months.
Michael Patrick King

Tough, Show, Week

It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.
Joan Van Ark

Left, Coming, Understood

I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license.
Ellen Ochoa

Important, Brother, Interested

I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.
Harvey Korman

Making, Middle, Canceled

I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.
Viola Davis

Long, Done, Point

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
Damon Wayans

Angry, Struggle, Light

I'm at a little loss in terms of my Leave It To Beaver expertise, since I never watched an episode of the show - so the cast in the pilot could have been Martians or they could have been the regular cast for all I know.
Harry Shearer

Show, Leave, Since

As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.
Tim DeKay

Good, Odds, Usa

So already, you go from not having a job and thinking you're going to get fired after the pilot, to knowing that you've got a guaranteed job for 4 years.
Michael Shanks

Job, Thinking, After

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.
Isabel Lucas

Travel, Dad, Born

And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.
Story Musgrave

Military, Interest, Test

Yes, during the pilot, they gave me a little toy from the shop. It's like three little moose in a boat, paddling. It's very cute. And I got to keep some of the clothes.
Caroline Dhavernas

Keep, Three, Cute

I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one.
Bob Saget

Good, Past, Single

I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.
Stephen Hopkins

Reality, Light, Around

I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.
Josh Holloway

Movies, Through, Wanted

I never made a career decision based solely on my desire to be an astronaut. I attended the Naval Academy because I wanted to be a Navy pilot. I majored in math because math had always come pretty easily to me and I liked it.
John L. Phillips

Career, Decision, Pretty

We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film.
Thomas Lennon

Play, Everyone, Film

There was so long from when we did the pilot and then when the show was eventually picked up by Comedy Central - and, in fact, we had to shoot the pilot twice.
Thomas Lennon

Long, Fact, Show

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.
Douglas Bader

Fear, Strong, Matter

I work really, really hard and it's challenging going through all of those time zones and having to be awake when you're supposed to be asleep. I literally fly more than a pilot.
Miranda Kerr

Work, Time, Hard

When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.
Joel Hodgson

Movies, Bad, Him

I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.
Robert Irvine

Impossible, Show, Guy

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.
Sonny Perdue

Life, Great, Freedom

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