Joanna Going Quotes

The only thing I like about air travel is it gives me time to read.

I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an 'unaccompanied minor' made me blase about the rigors of air travel.

Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It was amazing just to have hot food above the clouds.

I flew to New York to do a commercial back in the day when people could meet you at the gate, and the little agent when I came off the plane said, 'Oh, Miss Carr, we are so happy to have you here.' I went, 'Oh, for goodness sakes.'

I'd like to fly. Then I wouldn't have to wait in airport security lines.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.

I'm on JetBlue and United. So I spend a lot of time on airplanes with other people and in terminals or just traveling around and going to restaurants or whatever. The interaction I get on a daily basis is always positive. I've never had a negative interaction.

On both of my flights, everything went very well.

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.

I've always been a good flier. I love the whole experience.

One of the first jobs I did was a commercial, a local commercial on the Chinese channel here in Los Angeles, and the whole thing was in Cantonese, I think, and I didn't have any lines, but I was kind of the focus of the commercial.

I remember the first time that I flew on an airplane overseas, it was about when I was seven; it was 1969.

There's nothing funny about flying to Houston.

Anytime that you get a chance to go from Washington to L.A., I think it's really just getting used to the three-hour time difference.

If you see someone on a plane with an eye mask, sleeping, that's probably me, because that's pretty much where I live.

I love to travel with my own hot sauce, and I have it in packets so I no longer have to be disturbed by TSA.

When I was up on my first flight, we were really putting it together. So, I was essentially a construction worker.

I learned about making films by going into advertising, making commercials.

I made experimental commercials in the experimental division of a production house, Film X, that made commercials for ad agencies.

I flew to Los Angeles to interview Vinnie Jones and Piers Morgan for the BBC and spent 11 hours in economy on BA, and the leg room was fine. In business class, Virgin, BA, and Emirates are good. I've flown business class on Kingfisher, which has proper couches.

In our job you are constantly travelling, going in and out of different temperatures.