"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."

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

"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!"

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

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

"I'm a very big believer in fate."

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

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

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

"I'm really a romantic at heart."