Christopher Atkins Quotes

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

I’m really a romantic at heart.

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.

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.

Everybody wants to be like everybody else.

I LOVE Australia! Its like my second home.

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

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

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

I’m a very big believer in fate.

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

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

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.

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

I think the United States is way behind the times.

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.

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

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.

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