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There's no such thing as a natural-born pilot.

I didn't get my first pilot that I screen-tested for, and I really thought it was the end of the world. But it's fine, you know, you move on to something else.

Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

It is cool to make a pilot because you get to do all the fun stuff, and then you get to leave when all the tough stuff starts.

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.

I remember my wife and I used to get on plane and see everybody else with their babies. They'd be putting strollers and car seats up above, and we'd think: Oh, please Lord, don't make us go through that.

If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.

Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.