I was always ACCEPTED at par value. I wore the uniform of a Pan Am pilot; THEREFORE, I must be a Pan Am pilot.

The GLORY of being a CARRIER PILOT has CERTAINLY WORN off.

The PILOT came BACK and said he had just HEARD that KENNEDY was shot.

I had to think ahead. How MUCH would I really enjoy committing five or seven years to working on this? When you're an unemployed actor offered a TV PILOT, no matter who you are you're tempted by the good hunk of CHANGE to be MADE. It keeps you out of the unemployment line.

When you do a PILOT, you can't ALWAYS TELL what you have.

You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the RIGHT MIX are more important than the ACTUAL writing of the PILOT because you hope it's something that can have a long life.

I did a PILOT for Nickelodeon that didn't END up GOING to SERIES.

I couldn't tell you a good, BAD or ugly pilot just from READING it, but I can tell you a CHARACTER I want to play.

Brimstone was GREAT. That was another occasion when they called me in to do the pilot and it turned into a REGULAR job, which made me quite happy. It was another REALLY good experience and we were all so SURPRISED when they PULLED the plug on it.

The most IMPORTANT DECISION you can MAKE as a showrunner when you're doing a PILOT is who's in it and who's DIRECTING it.

Sloth is the failure to do what NEEDS to be done when it needs to be done - LIKE the kamikaze pilot who flew SEVENTEEN missions.

I'm one of the only actresses in LOS Angeles who has never waited tables - yet - and I'm so terrible at holding trays. When we SHOT the 'Vampire Diaries' pilot, I totally spilled WATER all down Nina Dobrev, and she had to get her HAIR and make-up redone.

The FAMOUS PILOT SEASON LITERALLY sends shivers down my SPINE.

'Leave It To Beaver' is a fairly FAMOUS show in AMERICA, but I don't think it travelled. It was one of those typical '50s family COMEDIES. I was in the pilot episode as sort of the DARK presence: my character was called Eddie Haskill.

I don't have my PILOT's licence ANYMORE, but I'm STILL very POLITICAL.