Samuel Beckett Quotes

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators.

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

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world.

If I did anything 'next', I would do writing.

Instead of becoming an engineer like my brother, I moved to New York to be an actor.

I worked in a record store, but I realised I didn't want that. I still wanted to pursue a career - or a life - that my songs provided for me.

During my career as an airline pilot, I had the opportunity to be a check and training captain. Part of this job was to train and test experienced pilots to ensure that they had the necessary knowledge and skills to safely and efficiently operate those magnificent big jets.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

Truth be told, I didn't want to be on T.V. I was going to be a writer or producer or a director, and at the end of my sophomore year, my department chairman put me up for a job doing weekend weather in Syracuse, New York.

I longed to fly. I was paid in flying lessons and, by the time I was 13, I'd logged 100 hours at the controls.

I always wanted to be a pilot.

I was acting for years before the band, so I would like to get into that again.

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.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.

I was at university and I was studying modern drama and studying English, and I just was like, 'I don't wanna be in this place. I wanna be acting.'

Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!

I took my first flying lesson in 1967, when I was 16. By October 1968, I had 70 hours in the air and got my pilot's license.

I did enjoy and take pride in my work as an actress, yet I'm bemused by suppositions that my life since has somehow been less fulfilling. That certainly is not the case. Rather the reverse.

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

In college, I wanted to be a child psychologist. Acting was just something on the side to make money. And it was fun.

I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.

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!

I actually wanted to be a nurse, of all things.