Quotes About Gilligan's Island

#1. 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

#2. '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

#3. 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

#4. After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle
[expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.

Janis Joplin

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I'd been brought up on ... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'

Pierce Brosnan

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. Tis easy to see, hard to foresee.

Benjamin Franklin

#11. It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island.

Sherwood Schwartz

#12. Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.

Bob Denver

#13. I don't smile. I have all these thoughts. Crazy thoughts. Like, on the one hand, I want to kiss her passionately, like they do in movies, and just paralyze her with the feeling of how much I want to take care of her

A.S. King

#14. 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

#15. Go ahead and laugh! If you don't laugh, you going to cry ~ so laugh!

Denise

#16. 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

#17. He finished shaving by touch, still walking around the room, for he tried to see himself in the mirror as little as possible so he would not have to look into his own eyes.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. 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

#19. I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan.

Mickey Rivers

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. Horne Fisher stooped and touched

G.K. Chesterton

#23. Now climb, young grasshopper, so your Kung Fu won't be weak.

Ilona Andrews

#24. I grew six, seven inches in junior year of high school, so I played guard my whole life growing up. So I think there's where I got my skill set from.

Kelly Olynyk

#25. 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

#26. Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Cassandra Clare

#27. You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.

Ron Jeremy

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. Every word that I utter matters and this makes me speechless.

Amit Abraham