Russell Johnson Quotations

We really feel we landed the right one.

One thing I can say about Bob and the show is he entertained generations, and everybody approached us and him in particular with love and a smile,

I have affirmed his strong stands for life, marriage, and candidly, low taxes.

I found him to be a dear, sweet generous, loving man, ... Gilligan's Island.

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

He was very calm. He was very well within his mind, ... He valiantly and courageously said, 'I must give an account for what I have done.'

There aren't many shows that people are talking about thirty years after they're done. So we're rather unique and we're very grateful about it.

I think it's a novel approach to the ethics issue. It is sort of a way to lobby for a bill that now receives so much lobbying pressure from the other direction.

I think we have a good school system, but it can be better. I think we can work on communication.

Really, we don't know what to make of it except that we're delighted about it. We have all these fans thirty years later and they're still around and will probably be around for a long time to come.

We're all on the same team, going into the same direction. He (Parsley) is on first base. I'm on second base. He'll cover areas I cannot reach,

Well, we've been typecast, there's no doubt about that. But it's all right. We've all done other things since then and we've had good careers.

We had a good cast and we loved each other.

Bob was a teacher before he became and actor. Bob was very smart, very bright. He played this kind of goofy guy but Bob was not a goofy guy.

Bob was a national treasure as far as I'm concerned.

There was love in what he did. There was kindness. There was no meanness in him.

It's kind of a 'me too' to Bedford. We need to seriously look at doing the same thing for ourselves from the position of economic development.

It's just too hard to explain. You have nine seconds left on the clock, we know he's (Ryan Johnson) wanting to pass it and then he comes scrambling my way. I knew I had to get him and to come up with the play and hear the horn go off was just unbelievable.

It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.

It's like losing a brother. That's all I can tell you.

It's very sad, and a big loss to us for my wife and myself because we were very close to Bob and his wife ever since we first started working together back in 1964.

I must give an account for what I've done.

If people have never spent any time in a bottle bill state, it's hard to conceive of how it works,

I was always the bad guy in westerns. I played more bad guys than you can shake a stick at until I played the Professor. Then I couldn't get a job being a bad guy.

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

I was at a speaking engagement for MIT... and I said, 'The Professor has all sorts of degrees, including one from this very institution [MIT]! And that's why I can make a radio out of a coconut, and not fix a hole in a boat!'

I wish to confess my sins, and I wish Christ to come into my life. . .