Duane G. Carey Quotes

Modeling is not a passion of mine. I have been having fun with it, but it's just to pay the bills.

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

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.

Many people have a profession or a job - most people do, I should think. And they do it. And that's what I did.

I live for the text. It's my job.

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

Acting is the way I make my living.

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood.

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit.

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.

Acting is my job.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

If I wasn't in this industry, I wouldn't work out.

I loved flying as much as I thought I would and continue to fly aircraft.

I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos.

I've worked with the great and the not-so-great. But mostly I've worked with men and women who loved their profession, and who like me, had kids to raise and houses to pay for.

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.

There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.

Work is the only meanin' I've ever known.

If I could be working every day, I would be.

I'm an actor. It's my job.

The very, very beginning is that my mother and father were aviators.

I make a good living doing what I do.

Flying is the only active profession I would ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.

Hollywood is my day job.