Russell Johnson Quotes

"Old actors never die, they don`t even fade away. They`re always available."

"It used to make me upset to be typecast that way. But as the years have gone on, I have given in. I am the Professor, and that`s the way it is. The show has brought a lot of joy to people, and that`s not a bad legacy." -- Russell Johnson, referring to his role on "Gilligan`s Island"

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

We had a good cast and we loved each other.

It`s a phenomenon that we don`t really understand.

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

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.

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.

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.