If you want to grow old as a pilot, you've got to know when to push it, and when to back off.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
For the last four or five years, I had been in the position where I didn't have to take a pilot. I took this one because the script and the people were terrific. It never frightened me. As we were doing the pilot, I could tell that it was working.
I always wanted to be a pilot.
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.
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.
I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.
It was understood that when I left to do the pilot that I wasn't coming back.
Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.
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.