Megyn Price Quotes

I've done, like, eight pilots, and every time, everyone thinks it's going to go for 10 years.

I've heard that George Clooney did something like nine pilots before 'ER' was picked up, way back when he was doing TV. It's just the way the business works. There are a lot of pilots that we've never seen. It's protocol.

Pilot season in L.A. is just this blood bath. They make so many pilots, and such a small percentage are picked up. And then if you are picked up, there are so many variables. You have to get a good time slot, and you have to get promoted. And then you have to thrive in that time slot.

When we started 'Perry Mason,' we thought it might go a year.

I did a pilot for Anything But Love in 1988 that didn't sell.

As I slowly managed to take what I had learned into a transition from contestant to announcer and warm-up, I first had to prove myself on pilots. And as you know, many pilots are taped for each show that is lucky enough to breakthrough to being a series.

That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life.

I've sold shows based on my standup twice to CBS, but they've never gone past the script stage. TV is very competitive.

It's rare to get a part in a show that's greenlit, let alone two shows that have been greenlit.

I finally achieved my dream by being a TV showrunner.

Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.

Josh Gad and I have been friends since the time he auditioned for Modern Family. I directed the pilot for that, and that's how we met.

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

Television can be a very fickle place.

From an actor's point of view, you never really like to hope that anything will go beyond the pilot. I'd always say to my agent every time I filmed a pilot, 'Great! Well, I'll see you at pilot season.'

I'm very focused on 'Dexter' right now. I want to make it as good of a show as we can.

It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.

The pilot system in television is utterly broken. It's a huge waste of money.

I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up.

I was 16 when I auditioned for the series '8 Simple Rules.' They cast the kids first.

I've met Shonda Rhimes a few times, and certainly she's an inspiration for me in television.

Now that I know what goes into making a pilot, keeping it on the air, and keeping your fans, I'm at a point now where I do a pilot and just hope for the best. If it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out.

The lifespan of any show is to end in cancellation.

Shows don't reunite because television doesn't work that way. There's no profit model and people go off to do other work.

I've always had a show that went seven episodes or 13 episodes or whatever. And I've never had a show that's gone past a first season. It really is a lot of work.