Christopher Atkins

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

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

“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!”

“I'm a very big believer in fate.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“I think the United States is way behind the times.”

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

“I'm really a romantic at heart.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”