Christopher Atkins Quotes
"They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Nothing)
"You know, I never expected to enter the movie business."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: 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
(Related: Feeling, Trees)
"Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas."
- Christopher Atkins
"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Saying, Want)
"We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff."
- Christopher Atkins
"There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing."
- Christopher Atkins
"I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Sports, Medicine)
"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
"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Hollywood, Press)
"Everybody wants to be like everybody else."
- Christopher Atkins
"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Hollywood)
"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Sense)
"Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Water)
"As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Change, Want)
"I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Coaching)
"I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Beer, Grace)
"I think the United States is way behind the times."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: states, United)
"I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism."
- Christopher Atkins
"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
(Related: Direction, Fate)
"I'm a very big believer in fate."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Fate)
"One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Favorite, First, 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
(Related: Clothes, Months, Running)
"Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me."
- Christopher Atkins
"It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Nudity, states, United)
"I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me."
- Christopher Atkins
"I'm really a romantic at heart."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Heart, Romantic)
"I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic."
- Christopher Atkins
(Related: Thought)