Pilots Quotes - Page 5

After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

You can't have a helicopter fly over boiling lava. It would've exploded from the heat, and is just way too dangerous. The pilot of a helicopter would've flatly refused anyway.

Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.

I'd most likely be a helicopter pilot, or I'd own a really cool surf hotel somewhere on a beach.

The program is a voyage chart, a series of signals, which, like the pilot's radio, provides the basic orienting information required for the trip.

When I moved to L.A. in 1989, the very first thing I did was this horrific pilot called To Protect And Surf.

During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return.

The 19 hijackers that came over here to commit the attack on Sept. 11, there were those that were at the bottom of the line. There were those who were the principal conspirators. There were those who were the pilot. Everybody has a role.

I don't know why I am internally a violent person. I don't have the normal nerve endings most people do, which was very good for me as a pilot in Viet Nam. When most people are afraid, I'm actually quite excited about things. The more dangerous something is, the happier I am.

I've interfaced with a lot of other creators of serialized shows, and I've really been blown away by the fact that they create a big spectacle, at the beginning, in the pilot, and they don't ultimately know where they're going. That's terrifying to me, and creatively disingenuous.

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

I thought I'd join the RAF and become a wing commander. I realised this wasn't possible, although I do have a pilot's licence.

When I go up, especially if I'm paying for a small helicopter and pilot, I'm on. I've got an hour and a half and the clock is ticking and it's costly and I enter into a super-heightened state of mind.

There is a decided prejudice on the part of the general public against being piloted by a woman, and as great an aversion, partially because of this, by executives of those companies whose activities require employing pilots.

After the war, in which I served as a pilot in the Air Force, I took up films.

I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

I did pilots here and there but mostly I was doing little bits in movies.

I've done 10 or 11 pilots for network television, which is ridiculous.

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.

I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.

Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.

There are a lot of good shows that don't get picked up. Like that Ben Stiller pilot, Heat Vision And Jack? That would have been a great show, but somehow it slipped by.

What do I tell the pilots to do?

I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.