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• Usually I get recognized for The Blue Lagoon or Dallas.

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

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

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• 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.

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• Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

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• 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!

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

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

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• I think the United States is way behind the times.

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

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

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

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

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

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• I’m a very big believer in fate.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I’m really a romantic at heart.

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

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Christopher Atkins (29)

Birth:	21st February, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor

About

Christopher Atkins was born in Rye, New York. He is an American actor, who became famous in his debut role with co-star Brooke Shields in the 1980 film The Blue Lagoon. Atkins has been the cover boy of many teen magazines and has appeared in several television commercials representing Coke and Adidas. In 2007, he starred in the direct-to-DVD sci-fi movie 100 Million BC. In 2009, he appeared on VH1's Confessions of a Teen Idol, a reality show in featuring former teen idols. Atkins was nominated for a Golden Globe Awards for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture – Male for The Blue Lagoon as well as Best Young Actor for the Young Artist Awards.

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