A Quote by Jerry Van Dyke
I never turned down anything but 'Gilligan's Island.'
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If I had taken 'Gilligan's Island,' I would never have gotten 'Coach' because I would have been established as Gilligan.
It wasn't Ginger's Island, it was Gilligan's Island.
Gilligan's Island is wherever you want it to be in your mind.
I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.
It'll be a great day when the seniors have all the baseball caps they need and the Pentagon bombs Gilligan's Island.
As a person of color, I was trained from very early on to see 'Leave It to Beaver,' 'Gilligan's Island,' or 'Hamlet' and look beyond the specifics of it - whether it be silly white people on an island or a family living in Nowheres or a Danish person - to leap past the specifics and find the human truths that have to do with me.
I'd been brought up on... American TV: 'Lou Grant,' 'Starsky & Hutch;' 'Gilligan's Island.'
Jace suggested that the cast of "Gilligan's Island" could go do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.
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.
I never turned down anything and never argued with any producer or director.
The 'My Mother the Car' script read like Neil Simon compared to the 'Gilligan's Island' script.
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.
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.
Bespoke tailoring: yes! I found this one pair of pants - they're Canali - and brought them into a tailor and said, 'Clone these, dammit.' They just do all the right things. I've got eight pairs in different colors and I never have to think about pants again. The only look otherwise that suits me is, like, the Professor from 'Gilligan's Island.'
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.'
And then, one acting class turned into two, turned into four, and then turned into, "I love this. I could do this for the rest of my life. But, I don't have a background in acting. I never acted in college, or did anything like that. How can I go about doing this?" That meant going to grad school and getting some training, and I did. I literally walked down the path. It was real fortuitous for me to walk by that school, that one morning.
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