Pilots Quotes - Page 16

• Had an audition for a pilot today, but realized I could save gas and help the environment by pissing up a rope here at home!

  Dana Gould

  Home, Rope, Today

  4 Copy quote

• I quit my day job the day my daughter was born. I remember flying to Cleveland and hitting a thunderstorm, which caused the plane to lose pressure, and the oxygen masks fell from the ceiling. We felt the plane dropping; the pilot was taking it down to regain cabin pressure. My heart was in my stomach. I found out after landing that her mom was in labor. I did the show and came back to New York. By the time I walked into the hospital, my daughter was being born. She was waiting for me. She's a sweet daddy's girl. She's premed. She has her own pie company. She works for Habitat for Humanity.

  J. B. Smoove

  Girl, Mom, Daughter

  7 Copy quote

• Pilot season tends to be grueling, because you can be thrown all of these auditions at once - last-minute, always - and you're going on three a day, especially back in the day.

  Kim Dickens

  Three, Lasts, Auditions

  Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. May 19, 2010.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I want to help you "fly right" in the gathering storms of the last days. You are the pilots. You are responsible to think about the consequences of every choice you make. Your righteous choices will keep you from getting off course.

  Robert D. Hales

  Thinking, Choices, Storm

  4 Copy quote

• You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

  Seamus Heaney

  Witch, Losing Yourself, Hansel And Gretel

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.39, Macmillan

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't remember exactly the first thing I wrote, but one of the stories, was about a pilot whose plane crashed on a desert island, and the only other life on the island was a brown cow with yellow spots. The cow had... to survive, had taught itself to eat and get nutriments from sand. I guess, I've always been interested in adaptability and taking whatever life hands you and running with it.

  Tom Robbins

  Running, Yellow, Islands

  6 Copy quote

• When The Walking Dead officially got greenlit, Frank Darabont called me up and said, "My passion project just got off the ground. There's a role I think you're perfect for. Would you consider the role of Andrea?" And I was like, "Wow, I'd love to take a look at it." So, I read the pilot script and was knocked out.

  Laurie Holden

  Passion, Thinking, Perfect

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I come from that earlier time in America when palm pilot was a nickname you recieved upon entering puberty! I was more than a palm pilot I was the palm Chuck Jager. Tom Wolfe wrote a book about me called The Right Hand Stuff. I was the only guy in my class hip enough to move to the European grip.

  Dennis Miller

  Moving, Book, Hands

  "Dennis Miller: The Raw Feed". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. April 12, 2003.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I can't believe it's been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It's unbelievable just how far everything has come. I'm happier now than I've ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to 'Glee.'

  Lea Michele

  Baby, Believe, Years

  "'Glee's' Lea Michele Previews Rachel and Kurt's 'Emotional' Homecoming". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 18, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The way an aircraft flies - that is the way the strategy works. Most of the time the plane is on autopilot, and does a great job of flying itself. Every once in a while it is necessary for the pilot to jump in.

  Roy Niederhoffer

  Jobs, Flying, Way

  8 Copy quote

• God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Devil, May, Captains

  9 Copy quote

• The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.

  Neil Armstrong

  Moon, Goal, Interesting

  Interview at The New Space Race, August 2007.

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• With mockumentaries, the conceit is that the characters are being interviewed, so you can start a scene and cut to a character looking at the camera and saying, "I'm working on this project," instead of having to figure out ways for people to talk naturally about what they're doing. You see this problem in pilots - people end up explaining things to each other that they'd never explain in real life.

  Michael Schur

  Real, Character, Cutting

  "An Interview with Michael Schur". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Thirteen, believermag.com. October 1, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I didn't have a lot of ambition, which I think was a good thing. I mean, I was ambitious about quality, but I wasn't ambitious in the "I've got to get a pilot!" way. I never went out to L.A. for pilot season.

  Justin Theroux

  Ambition, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've always said that it's like being the winner of three separate lottery tickets - getting a pilot, getting the pilot picked up, and having a show that actually lasts.

  Rick Hoffman

  Three, Lasts, Tickets

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So, I can live with people saying, "I didn't like it." But I can't live with people saying, "There just seems to be no plan here," 'cause there is a plan. And a lot of people fall into that, where they don't know what their show is yet. Their pilot gets picked up, and they have to figure it out. I would hate to be in that situation.

  J.H. Wyman

  Hate, Fall, People

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

  John Ortberg

  Sloth, Needs, Done

  John Ortberg (2011). “If You Want to Walk on Water Get Out of the Boat”, p.54, ReadHowYouWant.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I was in employment as a regular line pilot, I used to take unpaid leave to go on tour with Iron Maiden. I got lucky - they let me off

  Bruce Dickinson

  Iron, Lucky, Employment

  17 Copy quote

• I directed a half hour comedy pilot, 'Upgrade,' and had one of the best times ever! I had such a great time directing; I would love to get to direct another project.

  Daniella Alonso

  Half, Comedy, Hours

  4 Copy quote

• We live in a world where it has become politically correct to avoid
  absolutes. Many want all religions to be given the same honor, and all gods
  regarded as equally true and equally fictitious. But take these same
  people, who want fuzzy, all-inclusive thinking in spiritual matters, and
  put them on an airplane. You will find they insist on a very dogmatic,
  intolerant pilot who will stay on the straight and narrow glidepath so
  their life will not come to a violent end short of the runway. They want no
  fuzzy thinking here!

  Jack T. Chick

  Spiritual, Airplane, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• Working in television, many times you read a script, you work on the pilot, and then you play the waiting game to see if you're able to make it a series.

  Mena Suvari

  Games, Play, Waiting

  Source: collider.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We [Afghanistan] are constantly dealing with situations in which we must ensure that provinces or major cities do not fall into enemy hands. People need to understand that we don't have an air force and the forces that we do have used to get air support from NATO, which is no longer available. Our pilots have done wonders, but they are stretched thin. We are dealing with resources that have been spread thin.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Fall, Hands, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Americans made the decision out of principle to buy Russian equipment for us because our pilots and mechanics were trained on Russian aircraft. But, then, as a result of the Ukraine crisis, the US Congress imposed sanctions on Russia and the equipment could no longer be delivered to us. I am proud of our security and defense forces.

  Ashraf Ghani

  Russia, Ukraine, Decision

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• What helped me get the part was that I turned it down. When I read the script, Venus was just a black guy who came in wearing a big coat and a hat and making jive talk. I'd been up for so many of those! I'd had enough of caricatures, what white writers conceive blacks to be. I told the producer I wasn't interested in doing anything like that for three or four years. He said that it was just a pilot, that Venus would be given a human dimension and would be quiet off-the-air. I wanted that input. I thought that side was as important as the comic side. For 'WKRP,' too much of either would be bad.

  Tim Reid

  Years, White, Air

  7 Copy quote

• I went to network on a handful of pilots, and going to network is the most stressful situation anybody can ever be in. You're supposed to be on point, you're supposed to be at the top of your game, the funniest you can be, in about five minutes, in front of people wearing suits who really don't care, and they've probably already picked their person, but they have to see a handful just to satisfy the process. It's the most horrible, horrible process known to man. I wouldn't want anybody to go through it.

  Andy Dick

  Men, Games, Stressful Situations

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. May 1, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source