Top 87 Gilligan Quotes
#1. Vince Gilligan and AMC are really wonderful people to direct and produce for because they don't put the demands of any conventionalism on you.
Michelle MacLaren
#2. Did you know that a lot of Emily Dickinson's poems can be sung to the theme from Gilligan's Island? Not kidding, this is totally legit.
Chris Bohjalian
#3. A guy comes home from college to find his mother sleeping with his uncle, and there's a ghost running around. Write it good, it's Hamlet; write it bad, it's Gilligan's Island.
Lorne Michaels
#4. Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.
Emma McLaughlin
#5. I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe.
Jennifer Garner
#6. I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.
Mickey Rivers
#7. As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive.
Mark Burnett
#8. From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
Kathleen Sebelius
#9. It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.
Jesse Jackson
#10. 'Rescue From Gilligan's Island' was the first of the so-called reunion shows on the networks, getting a 54 share. With numbers like that, everybody else started to have reunion shows.
Sherwood Schwartz
#11. You asked my opinion and I gave it. Of course you have to remember that if I'd been on the island with Gilligan, he'd have been killed ten minutes into the first episode. Where I come from, incompetence and stupidity are reasons for justifiable homicide. (Varyk)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. I was creator and executive producer of 'The Brady Bunch' on TV. The stage version was done by others, but it was a repeat of the old scripts. The 'Gilligan' musical is a completely original work with all seven characters and 18 original songs.
Sherwood Schwartz
#13. Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
Cassandra Clare
#14. You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.
Ron Jeremy
#15. I watched a lot of series. I didn't watch a lot of movies on TV. But I watched Gilligan's Island and Star Trek and all that stuff.
Geena Davis
#16. If you study both 'Gilligan' and 'Brady,' you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it's possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.
Sherwood Schwartz
#17. People are hypocrites. If you ask them what they want to see on TV, they'll tell you they want better quality programming. And then what do they watch? 'Gilligan's Island.'
Johnny Carson
#18. Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.
Bob Denver
#19. The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day;
For half his flock were in their beds,
Or under green sods lay.
William Butler Yeats
#20. I don't like it to be compared to 'Survivor.' The idea of 'Survivor' is to kill each other off to win the prize. There's no killing in Gilligan's Island.
Sherwood Schwartz
#21. As the psychologist Carol Gilligan has written, "Women's sense of integrity seems to be entwined with an ethic of care, so that to see themselves as women is to see themselves in a relationship of connection.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#22. Gilligan argued that while men seek maturity by detaching themselves, women see themselves maturing as they attach.18
Timothy J. Keller
#23. When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it's written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can't do that, the show will fail.
Sherwood Schwartz
#24. When you're talking about people like Shonda Rhimes, Vince Gilligan or Beau Willimon, you're talking to people who are notable and celebrities in their own right. People want to know how their brains work.
Jim Rash
#25. It was like the time her sister suggested she read Emily Dickinson to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Once certain thoughts got into your head, you couldn't get rid of them.
Sarah Dunn
#26. I'd been brought up on ... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'
Pierce Brosnan
#27. I don't know why my brain has kept all the words to the Gilligan's Island theme song and has deleted everything about triangles.
Jeff Foxworthy
#28. I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.
Elizabeth Lesser
#29. I looked around the tiny bathroom, at the three of us crammed in. A billionaire, a movie star, and a small town girl. It was some sick lesbian twist on Gilligan's Island. I would have laughed but none of it was funny.
Giselle Fox
#31. One reason I relate to 'Veronica Mars' fans is because I can totally geek out about shows. I mean, I write Vince Gilligan fan mail every year.
Rob Thomas
#32. I don't think my memory of that night is ever coming back."
"Do you want me to hit you on the head with a coconut? It works on Gilligan's Island.
Jennifer Echols
#33. It's weird how with a TV show, you don't have just the one ending - you have the many.
Vince Gilligan
#34. It's like that old expression: "Men plan and god laughs." You sort of see that in the television world, where you have an idea where things are heading and you have a plan and sort of start off in that general direction, but you wind up taking all these side paths and whatnot - if you're lucky.
Vince Gilligan
#35. The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
Carol Gilligan
#36. I stay away from the internet as much as I can. Except for pornography.
Vince Gilligan
#37. I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
Carol Gilligan
#38. I'm not a big internet guy - not because I'm not interested in what people have to say, but probably because I'm too interested.
Vince Gilligan
#39. Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.
Carol Gilligan
#40. Living at once inside and outside the framework, Hester is able to see the frame.
Carol Gilligan
#41. The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
Vince Gilligan
#42. It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.
Carol Gilligan
#43. Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.
Vince Gilligan
#44. The aikido term ma ai, which means "space harmony" ("ai" is Chinese for "love," and it translates into Japanese as harmonious connection) refers to the optimal distance point, where you're close enough to connect well and far enough to enjoy your own space.
Stephen Gilligan
#46. Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
Carol Gilligan
#47. I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.
Vince Gilligan
#48. Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.
Carol Gilligan
#49. There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.
Vince Gilligan
#50. At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.
Carol Gilligan
#51. There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
Vince Gilligan
#52. Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
Carol Gilligan
#53. [Making meth] is a complex process. The truth of it is that we live in a post-Google world where you can find six recipes for meth in 30 seconds on a search engine.
Vince Gilligan
#54. Any real accomplishment in the world reflects the efforts of a lot of people ... For an individual to claim personal responsibility was the height of arrogance.
John J. Gilligan
#55. It's often the case with successful TV shows that they kind of inadvertently live on past their prime. It's best to leave the audience wanting more.
Vince Gilligan
#56. I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy.
Carol Gilligan
#57. What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.
Vince Gilligan
#58. The last thing in the world that I would want to know, in my own life, is when I'm going to pass away.
Vince Gilligan
#59. All violence is an attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.
James Gilligan
#60. 'SpongeBob SquarePants' is a great show, and it centers on a character that is courageously nice. Why is SpongeBob interesting? It's because he has passion. He has a passion for chasing jellyfish.
Vince Gilligan
#61. The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
Carol Gilligan
#62. You don't make a movie by yourself; you certainly don't make a TV show by yourself. You invest people in their work. You make people feel comfortable in their jobs; you keep people talking.
Vince Gilligan
#63. TV is where writers get to tell interesting stories. Because writers, for the most part, run television.
Vince Gilligan
#64. In all honesty, I've written movies that have been made, and the process has not been as satisfying as writing for television.
Vince Gilligan
#65. The older I get, the more nervous and anxiety-ridden I get. I don't know how to fix that.
Vince Gilligan
#66. People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.
Vince Gilligan
#67. I think that for me, as far as audience expectations and how you manage your anxiety, it helps to keep things in perspective.
Vince Gilligan
#68. The reason that I think it is a waste of time to engage in moral value judgements about people's violence, is because it doesn't advance by one iota our understanding of either the causes or the prevention of the violent behaviour.
James Gilligan
#69. This knotted dilemma lies at the center of women's development. How can girls both enter and stay outside of, be educated in and then try to change, what for millennia has been a man's world?
Carol Gilligan
#70. The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
Carol Gilligan
#71. Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.
Carol Gilligan
#72. I've imparted that philosophy to the writers, but some of them look stuff up while some don't. Same with the editors, directors and actors. To each their own.
Vince Gilligan
#73. When deciding what to do next, we can always ask: Does this thought, emotion, or behavior bring me closer to or take me further away from my center?
Stephen Gilligan
#74. If you're too rigid in your thinking you may miss some wonderful opportunities for storytelling.
Vince Gilligan
#75. If you look closely at 'Breaking Bad' and any given episode of 'The X Files,' you will realise the structure is exactly the same.
Vince Gilligan
#76. Basic services such as electricity have never been worse and the economy of Arab Iraq is in ruins.
Andrew Gilligan
#77. When a person reports a feeling, it's a comment on our relationship.
Stephen Gilligan
#78. In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
Carol Gilligan
#79. I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
Carol Gilligan
#80. While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
Carol Gilligan
#81. The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps
James Gilligan
#82. Speaking and listening are a form of psychic breathing.
Carol Gilligan
#83. Both love and democracy depend on voice
having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.
Carol Gilligan
#85. While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality - that everyone should be treated the same - an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence - that no one should be hurt.
Carol Gilligan
#86. Endings are the hardest part. I find there's a great relief that at the end of every episode, every hour of TV you produce, while you want a proper and satisfying ending, it doesn't have to end The Story, in capital letters.
Vince Gilligan
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