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Christopher Atkins
American
Actor
About the author
Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Nothing
You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Business
The guy who owned that island was from Oregon and he decided that he wanted to have an Oregon feeling to it, so he planted pine trees all over the place!
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Feeling
#Trees
Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Want
#Saying
We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Medicine
#Sports
I always wondered if I was supposed to be excellent at something or not. I think, because of that, I have a lot of insecurities about myself.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
#Press
Everybody wants to be like everybody else.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Hollywood
Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Sense
Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Water
As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Want
#Change
I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Coaching
I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Grace
#Beer
I think the United States is way behind the times.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#states
#United
I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Fate
#Direction
I'm a very big believer in fate.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Fate
One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#First
#Favorite
#Kissing
Let me tell you something: if you're on an island for three and a half months and you're four and a half hours by boat from the nearest store, and there's nobody but 30 crew members on the island, I guarantee that you'd be running around without your clothes on.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Clothes
#Months
#Running
Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#states
#United
#Nudity
I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
I'm really a romantic at heart.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Heart
#Romantic
I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.
Christopher Atkins,
American
Actor
#Thought