Colin Donnell Quotes

As a kid I wanted to be a pilot.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

When I was younger I wanted to be an airline pilot, but that lasted for about 30 seconds.

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally.

I immediately loved flying from my first flight and knew that in some way it was going to be a part of my future career!

Between the ages of 12 and 15, I wanted to be a pilot because I thought it would be glamorous and dangerous.

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.

I used to skip out of high school and go flying. It was just one of those things, I thought it was kind of a cool thing to do. I never thought about doing that as a profession, but I started checking things out and I found out there was a flight school down in Daytona Beach, called Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

My first inclination was toward flying and being a pilot.

I did a little bit of flying in high school, but I've just always been inspired and excited about airplanes.

I'm really enjoying the process of learning to fly. How it will fit into my life down the road - I'm looking forward to discovering that.

I made about fifty-four dollars a week and spent it on two flying lessons every week at the age of sixteen and was able to get a license then pretty early and knew that that's what I wanted to do, some kind of a career in aviation. I did know about space flight, but at that point, it was still pretty far out there.

I got my private pilot's license in autumn 1986.

I learned to fly an airplane, and had my own airplane during the 1960s.

I read, studied, and learned everything I could find about aviation. It was my greatest desire to become a pilot. I could already picture myself in the cockpit of an airliner or in a military fighter plane. I felt deep in my heart this was my thing!

Dad endorsed my learning to fly so he would have a live-in pilot, one he could get in touch with at any time.

Learning how to fly, for me, was so euphoric.

I did want to be a pilot. I wanted to be a military pilot because I liked airplanes. I was interested in modeling airplanes.

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.

Yes, I am a pilot. I am a flight instructor and a commercial pilot.

If I'm not on stage, I'm a pilot. I like flying planes; I have a little plane back in Nashville.

I would have become a pilot if it wasn't for my poor eyesight and the fact that I am hopeless in science.

Every day, I'm working on my aviation career so that I don't have to think about working as an actor.

Not long ago, when I was a student in college, just flying an airplane seemed a dream. But that dream turned into reality.

I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.