“You can tell a good actor if he's listening to the other people in the scene. When you looked at Bob, you could see the wheels going around in his head.”
“[Denver, however, never escaped being typecast as Gilligan.] That's the damaging thing about being terrific in what you do as an actor, ... Everybody wants you to be the same person.”
“He was a complex man. He was not a guy who just slipped on banana peels. He knew most people thought of him as a funny guy who could do funny things. But he was really an intellectual at heart.”
“He was a great actor, ... People think it's easy to fall down and get hit in the head with a coconut. And, every time, he'd find a different way to do that.”
“Gilligan's Island ... I knew that by assembling seven different people and forcing them to live together, the show would have great philosophical implications.”
