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" I never thought of acting as a creative process. Christ, I used to go to the movies and see Brando talking like he was trying to sell shoes, and he was great. I thought anybody could do it. Then I tried it, and I got so uptight, I'm limited as to what I can do on film. "

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" I feel like sometimes, when I'm singing a song like 'Moment of Forever,' that it goes both to your significant other and to the audience, and was it wonderful for you, you know? I think the best love songs I've written work on that level, like 'Help Me Make It Through the Night.' "

Kris Kristofferson

Think

Moment

Best

" Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. "

" If God made anything better than women, he kept it for himself. "

" I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box. "

" By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free. "

" It's always embarrassing when somebody does something praiseworthy of you. "

" If 'Bobby McGee' lasts, if 'Star Is Born' lasts, if 'Help Me Make It through the Night' lasts, if all of 'em last, man... who cares? "

Kris Kristofferson

Night

Star

" When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself. "

" The older I get, the less conservative I become. "

" My old man worked for Pan American. "

" Right after I resigned from the Army in 1965, I flew helicopters for oil platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. I flew personnel from rig to rig, and I'd live on a platform out at sea. "

" I can interpret my own work honestly. And performing by myself seems to focus the attention in the right places. "

" Dylan's relationship with Johnny Cash was the biggest influence on Nashville in my lifetime - they opened up country music. "

" I was in Nicaragua with the Sandinistas. I've argued for Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the United Farm Workers. I've been a radical for a long time. I guess it's too bad. I'd be more marketable as a right-wing redneck. But I got into this to tell the truth as I saw it. "

" That's who I wanted to be like was Bob Dylan. "

Kris Kristofferson

Dylan

Bob Dylan

" When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite. "

" Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff. "

" The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru. "

" Johnny Cash's legacy, I think if it was one word, it would be 'integrity.' He was the original wild man and grew from that guy that was doing all the crazy things that you read that rock n' rollers do to being someone who was like the father of our country, you know. He was a guest at the White House. He was Billy Graham's friend. "

" If you can't get out of something, get into it. "

" I feel like I'm kind of lazy, but I keep the yard looking good. "

" Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions. "

" I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote. "

" Every album I've made is about what I'm experiencing at the time. "

" I've been trying to think of things to tell my kids, something that I could pass down, and it's like, gee whiz, I maybe never learned anything that didn't contradict itself. "

" I hope that I'll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me. "

" I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway. "

" I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about whether they're going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime. "

Kris Kristofferson

Going

Hell

" 'Heaven's Gate' was based on a true story about the cattle people: the people who had the money turned on the settlers who were in the area. And it was mainly a defense of their behavior. And the cattlemen's association had just about declared war on these people who were poaching cattle, and because they were mainly immigrants. "

" I am grateful every morning I wake up. I've a big family full of kids, who laugh all the time and love each other. "