"Yeah, well, DIE WATCHING was one of those movies that came to me. " - Christopher Atkins
"You know, I never expected to enter the movie business. " - Christopher Atkins
"Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy? " - Christopher Atkins
"Well, THE BLUE LAGOON is my favorite just because it was the very first one. It was an experience beyond experiences. " - Christopher Atkins
"Well, sometimes when you say you want to be like everybody else, you're really saying that you're not. " - Christopher Atkins
"We figured they just wanted to hold me for BLUE LAGOON 2, but they just never got it together. I wasn't even approached for the sequel. " - Christopher Atkins
"Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas. " - Christopher Atkins
"We also shot at a location that was an Aboriginal sacred ground for the shots coming up the cliff. " - Christopher Atkins
"They built these little tanning booths for Brooke and I to do nothing but lay down and tan all over. " - Christopher Atkins
"There are times when directors just don't know what they're doing. " - Christopher Atkins
"The worst were the coral cuts, because when you get them a little organism actually grows. You can grow coral out of your arms or your feet or your legs, because it incubates in your skin. " - Christopher Atkins
"The loincloth became a status symbol, because THE BLUE LAGOON was such a huge hit. " - Christopher Atkins
"The Bulgarian makeup artist couldn't speak a lick of English, and made me look like some crazy Bela Lugosi thing! " - Christopher Atkins
"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
"Thank God for machines. The can make a dog sing! " - Christopher Atkins
"Probably a lot wiser and a lot more grown up, though I've realized that I never want to lose the kid inside of me. " - Christopher Atkins
"So, I used the Procaine and I ran to Priscilla Presley and gave her a big kiss. The next thing you know she took it from me and kissed Patrick Duffy! They were always playing practical jokes on that set, always. " - Christopher Atkins
"One day my manager got a call from Lorimar Productions. They accused me of sticking a sock in my swim suit! " - Christopher Atkins
"One of my favorite stories is my first kissing scene with Linda Gray. " - Christopher Atkins
"Nastassia Kinski and I are friends. " - Christopher Atkins
"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. " - Christopher Atkins
"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
"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
"IT'S MY PARTY is about a man who's dying of AIDS and takes his own life. " - Christopher Atkins
"I've seen numerous frontal nudity with men recently - and not even so recently. " - Christopher Atkins
"It's hard for me to see that it's mostly women doing nude scenes, because I'm always the one doing it in the films. " - Christopher Atkins
"I'm a very big believer in fate. " - Christopher Atkins
"I'm really a romantic at heart. " - Christopher Atkins
"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 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
"I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing. " - Christopher Atkins
"I think the United States is way behind the times. " - Christopher Atkins
"I thought that would be kind of cool, to make a bad guy look sympathetic. " - Christopher Atkins
"I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, and Princess Grace. " - Christopher Atkins
"I LOVE Australia! It's like my second home. " - Christopher Atkins
"I really enjoyed Roddy McDowall a lot, and I had a good time, too, with Amanda Peterson. I mean, I had a good time with everybody! " - Christopher Atkins
"I kick myself a little bit because I'm always worried. I'm trying to put my insecurities away in the sense of just letting things take their course. " - Christopher Atkins
"I had A LOT of coaching for the movie and no, I have never sung professionally before. " - Christopher Atkins
"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it. " - Christopher Atkins
"I got mobbed every time I went out of the house. Every single time! " - Christopher Atkins
"I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism. " - Christopher Atkins
"I don't sing well in the shower! " - Christopher Atkins
"I became a devout nudist after that movie. " - Christopher Atkins
"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
"I always said if you could harness Kristy Mc Nichols energy you could light New York. " - Christopher Atkins
"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press. " - Christopher Atkins
"I always had to have an all-over tan for the movie. " - Christopher Atkins
"By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away. " - Christopher Atkins
"Everybody wants to be like everybody else. " - Christopher Atkins
"FATAL CHARM was an excellent piece, because it gave me the opportunity to be a twisted, psychotic killer, but with a Ted Bundy, nice-guy type of look. " - Christopher Atkins
"But when I take the time to look at myself and see what I've accomplished . . . like I've got two incredible kids and a wife. " - Christopher Atkins
"Brooke was special in the sense that we grew up together on that island. " - Christopher Atkins
"Brooke might tell a different story, but I've always loved the water. " - Christopher Atkins
"As time went on, I wound up on the other side of the island, at the nude beach, where I had no trouble getting an all-over tan. " - Christopher Atkins
"As much as I didn't want to change, lifestyles do change. " - Christopher Atkins
"All of a sudden your whole life becomes a public issue. Money, wealth, people, prestige - all of that suddenly comes into play. " - Christopher Atkins
