Christopher Atkins's Quotes

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

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.

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

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

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

I think the United States is way behind the times.

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

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

I'm a very big believer in fate.

I'm really a romantic at heart.

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

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

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