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Pilot Quotes
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nice
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- Nov 07, 2020
Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.
- Flooded
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's 'Star Trek!' It's as close to an American mythology as we get. To be a part of that storytelling after being a fan since I was a teenage boy who saw the pilot episode of 'Next Generation' air, it's all very surreal.
- Nov 07, 2020
I remember watching the premiere of the pilot episode of 'Next Gen' when I was a teenager.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'Twin Peaks' happened the first time, I was a stage actor in Seattle. I was called in for an audition for this pilot, and at that time, it was called 'Northwest Passage,' and nobody knew anything. I thought, 'Oh, okay, Lewis and Clark.' And from that moment, I fell down the rabbit hole.
- Prison
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous - it happened so quickly.
- Nov 07, 2020
In the history of pilot reports, 'Seinfeld' has got to be one of the worst of all time.
- Who
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- Nov 07, 2020
When a test pilot comes off a flight, there is typically another pilot who is going to take it up, and he believes in the debriefing. You don't keep something to yourself.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pilot season's such a strange time. You get such a concentrated amount of scripts. A lot of them become white noise after a while. When something really pops, it becomes apparent very quickly. I'm quite instinctive about that. I know, normally by about 10 pages in, whether I want to do something or not.
- Nov 07, 2020
As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We did one pilot for FOX which was about this couple that moves to a town, and we play everyone in the entire town. So it was like a Peter Sellers film.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
- Grenade
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been pursuing a Ph.D. in political science when my National Guard unit was sent to Iraq. Eight months into our deployment, in November 2004, a rocket-propelled grenade fired by Iraqi insurgents tore through the pilot's side of the Blackhawk helicopter I was flying.
- Lightning
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Salter has been a fighter pilot, a rogue, and a climber. He counts Robert Redford as a friend.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When 'Hung' got canceled, I was available for pilot season, and 'Arrow' was the first thing I auditioned for. It wasn't the first script that came to me, but it was my first audition.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
As probably is known, I did not want my husband to join politics. He was not keen to join politics. He was very happy as a pilot.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a television producer, you do a lot of writing - drafting proposals for pilot shows and other things, so yes, a good deal of writing was involved.
- Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in the pilot of ER: I played a 15-year-old pregnant girl they were treating. And then, in the final season, they were casting for interns.
- Space
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- Nov 07, 2020
On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let's take flight simulation as an example. If you're trying to train a pilot, you can simulate almost the whole course. You don't have to get in an airplane until late in the process.
- Modeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been enjoying 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain that I picked up at the airport randomly. It's very witty and interesting to read about his time as a steamboat pilot.
- Principal
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Guy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I created 'Dinner: Impossible' with a guy named Bryan O'Reilly and I shot the pilot as a 30 minute show and we sold it.
- Egypt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a fighter pilot, flying Hurricanes all round the Mediterranean. I flew in the Western Desert of Libya, in Greece, in Syria, in Iraq and in Egypt.
- Idiots
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a pilot for a show about community support officers, and all the community support officers were pleased that we didn't portray them as idiots.
- Freaked
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read it in college as an assignment. I didn't think about it at the time. But when I heard there was a 'The Handmaid's Tale' pilot, I freaked out.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know how much credit I can take for 'Walker, Texas Ranger,' because I only worked on it for three weeks. I re-wrote the pilot, and then my name was on it forever.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a fighter pilot, so I moved around the world when I was young. Then I ended up in Kansas.
- Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I noticed about the '2 Broke Girls' pilot was that it looked like a new episode in a season and not a pilot, and that's an amazing sign.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had worked for ten years in theater; I had worked at Second City in Chicago. Then I got to Hollywood, and I was like, naively, 'Where's my pilot?'
- Film And TV
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the summer of 2010, I had decided to get into film and TV writing, so I wrote scripts for six different ideas I had developed, and the pilot for 'True Detective' was one of them.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
My very first job was something called 'Nobody's Watching,' that Bill Lawrence who created 'Scrubs,' it was his pilot. It was my very first TV job, and it was a sitcom. Ever since that experience, I've been so itching to get back to that kind of environment and just to be involved with comedy.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My whole life, I wanted to be a fighter pilot; it's what I wanted to do. I set up all of my classes for it, but I got lazy my senior year in high school and didn't get my paperwork in.
- Join
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few pilots even know how to read Morse code anymore. But if a pilot could read Morse code, he could tell which beacon he was approaching by the code that was flashing from it.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved playing Jackie on 'Happy Endings.' It was really exciting to be in the pilot and then be able to come back. Her character was so much fun!
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had done a directing producing job before on 'Big Day' and 'Jake in Progress,' and those are two shows where I directed the pilot and stayed with it in series.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I get on a plane, I don't want a laid-back pilot. I want a pilot who is a control freak, who is paying attention to every single detail of his job.
- Fly
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to the University of Washington as a physics and astronomy major. My other interest, of course, was aviation. I always wanted to be a pilot. And if you're going to fly airplanes, the best place to be is the Air Force.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've sold scripts in the past, and also a TV pilot that didn't get made, to Fox. But yeah, I've been writing for a while.
- Condensed
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More people saw the pilot of 'Glee' than saw me in my entire 10-year career on Broadway.
- Needs
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the SEC needs to be deterring corporate wrongdoing, the 'penalty pilot' program sends the wrong message.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2001, I was an Air Force lieutenant colonel and A-10 fighter pilot stationed in Saudi Arabia, in charge of rescue operations for no-fly enforcement in Iraq and then in Afghanistan.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went down for pilot season, I got Full House, and we wound up never leaving.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not militant, but there are certain things that are absolutely secret. There was a pilot printed on red paper, and I read everything on my iPad and have a scanner on my desk for these purposes. I scanned in the script, and red paper script scans in perfectly fine.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a part of the planning and attack package intelligence team for the strike against Syria in 1983 - in which we lost a pilot and had another one captured until Jesse Jackson got him out - and numerous other operations against Syria both before the Iraq war and during the insurgency.
- Sex
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- Nov 07, 2020
On 'Masters of Sex,' especially in the pilot, everybody was showing up word-perfect, and you're expected to show up word-perfect.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had CNN on in my hotel room every day while we were filming the pilot for 'The Originals.'
- Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
'The Originals' is going to be an epic showdown of supernatural forces, and that was very evident in the pilot. I just wanted to be a part of that.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
The audition process for 'Are You There, Chelsea?' was overwhelming and exciting. It was my first pilot season and one of the first pilots I auditioned for.
- Lines
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this job at Hollywood Video, and during my worst audition ever, I forgot all of my lines in front of Chuck Lorre at the callback for the 'Mike and Molly' pilot.
- No Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the hell is pilot season? It's an artificial boundary that makes no sense, and it makes you do things under duress.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was fortunate enough to book a pilot, and we just got picked up for a midseason replacement for ABC. It's called 'Romantically Challenged,' and I'm going to be playing Alyssa Milano's little sister. The other actor in it is Kyle Bornheimer from 'Worst Week' - he's hilarious.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of the only actresses in Los Angeles who has never waited tables - yet - and I'm so terrible at holding trays. When we shot the 'Vampire Diaries' pilot, I totally spilled water all down Nina Dobrev, and she had to get her hair and make-up redone.
- Did
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.
- Plant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.
- Funny Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The funny thing is that making a pilot is sort of an audition, at least for me. There's something psychological there, where you're sort of asking for the job while you're acting. And then when it's been picked up, it's a completely different psychological dynamic.
- Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
Working in MTV's development team, my days would consist of pitches and deciding which concepts we wanted to buy. We would then develop those into a pilot. Very few ended up making it to a full series, but if they did, I would manage the project alongside the show's creators.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before we shot the pilot, I knew what 'Dallas' was, but I actually was too young to remember the details of the show. I didn't have my hands on the DVDs, so I YouTubed everything I could of J.R.
- Fireman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020