“I sat backstage and had a beer with Richard Chamberlain, Paul Newman, ...” — Christopher Atkins Quote

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

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

“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.”

“I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.”

“I'm always so nervous when I have to do interviews or be on 'The Tonight Show' or the 'Oprah' show, where I have to be myself. I don't know why that's such a big deal - being yourself. But for some reason, I feel good in a dark room talking to actors about acting, doing acting. I like sitting backstage watching people work.”

“Every show is a mess at its first preview. No one's had enough time to rehearse in costumes, traffic patterns backstage haven't been worked out, machinery weighing thousands of pounds is being operated for the first time. And, also, it's the first time all the material you've written is before the public.”