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" I remember I had an actor friend - a close friend from college - Anthony Zerbe. He sent me a telegram before I started my first movie, 'Cisco Pike.' It said, 'Have a good time. Ignore the camera.' That was the extent of my training. "

Kris Kristofferson

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" If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years. "

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

" I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble. "

" Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free. "

" I feel so lucky to have lived the life that I did and to be surrounded by the people I love. I've got eight kids, and they're always laughing all the time. It's like music to my ears. I think that my frame of mind these days is probably happier than I've ever been, which is kind of odd, coming close to the finish line. "

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

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" What really makes me happy now is my home. I know that I have that to lose. But I don't see losing it. And I don't care if I never do another movie. And I don't care if I never get back on the road. I like to think that I'm gonna do that. But if I don't, I can live with that. "

" 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. "

" You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars. "

" 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. "

" Havin' Dylan cover one of your songs is like being a playwright and having Shakespeare act in your play. "

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" I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had - you know, family I live with; and I've been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville. "

" I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible. "

" There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing. "

" Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter. "

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

" 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing. "

" 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. "

" To me, the best love songs work on two - maybe three - different levels, where you're talking about the person who you're right opposite, and all the people like that. "

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

" I really have no anxiety about controlling my own life. "

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

" I boxed in Golden Gloves at Oxford and still know how to throw a straight left jab. "

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

" Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get. "

" I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters. "