Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Russell Johnson

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Russell Johnson.
Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Russell Johnson

Russell David Johnson was an American actor. He played Professor Roy Hinkley in Gilligan's Island and Marshal Gib Scott in Black Saddle.

Old actors never die, they don't even fade away. They're always available.
If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.
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. — © Russell Johnson
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.
We had a good cast and we loved each other.
I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.
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.
I must give an account for what I've done.
It's a phenomenon that we don't really understand.
I wish to confess my sins and I wish Christ to come into my life.
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!'
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