Christopher Atkins quotes:

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

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

Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

I think the United States is way behind the times.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Thank God for machines. They can make a dog sing!

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

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

I'm really a romantic at heart.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

I LOVE Australia! Its like my second home.

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

Now I'm growing and I can see my faults. I can look at myself objectively and say I can't blame anyone else; it was my own damn fault.

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

I'm a very big believer in fate.

All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play.

By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away.