Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by David Cassidy
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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.
I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.
Oh, yeah. I grew up in Southern California in the 1960's. It was very different. I was an only child as opposed to having siblings. My brothers all lived with my step-mom. I am very close to them, but we were not raised in the same house.
My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recollection of my father is being taken to see him in a matinee.
When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your own identity that I experienced in my own life - and you've been able to face the demons that have haunted you... I appreciate everything that I have.
I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides.
I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.
I've had a passion for horses since I was very young - I used to sit on the floor in front of the races on television and pretend to be a jockey - and I first began reading the racing form on the set of 'The Partridge Family.'
I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.
I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.
My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.
I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.
If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.
Going through 'The Partridge Family,' I looked up to people like Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and all those guys. But as an actor playing a part, I had to sing what was right for the character and the show.
In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.
My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
Having all that - the fame and adulation and women and all that stuff they talk about - doesn't make you happy. You have to make yourself happy.
I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model.
All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic.
When I was 11, I moved to Los Angeles to live with my father and stepmother and my half brothers. I became really close to my stepmother, and I am still very close to my brothers. My stepmother is the actress Shirley Jones, who was in 'The Partridge Family' alongside me, so we worked together for years.
I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.
It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.
It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manager, and I lived in a bubble, and it took me 15 years to get through that and a lot of psychotherapy, and I'm laughing about it now!
My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.
My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.
I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.
I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.
Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.
I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people.
I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.
I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.
For me to go back and to play for audiences some of whom have been following me for thirty years and some who have found me in the last five or six years, that's really an interesting thing. I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.
In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.
It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
You cannot make a teenage idol.
When you have had the kind of fame I had, I was always hounded by the media and I lived a very isolated life. Now it's even more difficult. The world has changed dramatically.
Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen on the ordinary apprentice. That is probably the best indictment with our fascination with celebrity in our culture, which drives me crazy.
I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.
I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this world, or why I should vote for George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I don't have enough time.
I want to love. I want to enjoy life.
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.
Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
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