I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.

- Bruce Dickinson

I got to do Disney Sunday movies. I got to do a TV pilot there. And it really helped me to realise that I needed to not just be a writer, but a producer, to see my work up on the screen the way I wanted it to look and play.

- Chris Carter

My pilot's license. I'm proud of that.

- Craig Ferguson

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

- Chuck Yeager

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

- Chuck Yeager

My father was an airline pilot, so we travelled more spontaneously than a lot of families. On a Thursday, we could decide to go somewhere like Barbados the next day for a long weekend.

- Chris Hadfield

You read a lot of pilots during pilot season, and not all of them really grab you.

- Brandon Jay McLaren

I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

- Bill Lawrence

For 'Breaking Bad,' it was like, that's one of the best pilots, probably the best pilot I have ever read.

- Betsy Brandt

I was 14 or 15 when I moved to L.A. permanently, but I had been out for pilot season for a few years before that.

- Britt Robertson

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

- Alan Shepard

I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

- Bruce Dickinson

I always wanted to be a pilot.

- Bo Jackson

Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was involved, he was one of the 'muscle' hijackers.

- Bill Dedman

I always wanted to be on 'Glee.' As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

- Alex Newell

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

Every first episode of a season has been crafted like another pilot.

- Anna Torv

The first thing I did for TV was a pilot for CBS.

- Allison Anders

I don't know much about writing a show or being a show-runner on a show, but I can only imagine that when you first cast a show and you first do a pilot, there are so many components that you're throwing into the mix and you're not sure how they're going to develop.

- Alison Brie

I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

- Adam Driver