Christopher Atkins Quotes

One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray.

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Larry Hagman was a huge star, and he was carrying my stuff for me.

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I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace.

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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.

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As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change.

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I had a lot of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before.

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I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

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I've been a scuba diver since I was 16 and I think that was one of the reasons they chose me.

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They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over.

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Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

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You know, I never expected to enter the movie business.

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Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?

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I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

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Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

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Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not.

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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.

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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.

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I'm a very big believer in fate.

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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!

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It's only in the United States that they make a big deal about nudity.

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We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff.

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I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

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Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

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There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing.

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I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic.

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Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island.

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Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water.

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I'm really a romantic at heart.

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