John Barrowman Quotes

Growing up, I wanted to be a pilot!

I always wanted to be a pilot.

As a kid I wanted to be a pilot.

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

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 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 dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

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.

My grandmother was a flight attendant; my mother had a pilot's license, and my grandfather was a pilot. That's how my grandmother and grandfather met.

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

When people asked me what I did for a living, I told them I make pilots. They thought I was a stewardess.

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

I want to be some kind of a pilot. And the other thing that I really like is psychology.

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

Four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me.

When I began my career as a flight attendant, I was a 21-year-old with a B.A. in English and stars in her eyes. I wanted to see every city in the world. I wanted to have adventures that, I hoped, would fuel a writing career some day.

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 was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.

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.

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

When I was at high school, I thought it'd be nice to go into Air Force Academy and fly jets, but that was a very brief dream. Ha, ha. I'm too lanky to fit in the cockpit.

There is something about the airline industry that really grabbed me.

Wanting to be a screenwriter is like wanting to be a co-pilot.

When I was young, all I wanted to be was a movie star. At a certain point, I started to grow up and really care about what I did.

You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!