Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by David Cassidy - Page 2

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something.

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on television and went out and bought an electric guitar.

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, blue-collar environment 40 minutes outside of New York until I was 11.

It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, 'You know, you really are a pretty good singer, I guess.'

We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.

Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: 'There he is again. It's Fabian.' It's a very tough thing. Everybody wants to discount your talent because you have become so... I don't know... a god, if you will.

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.

I had people sleeping in front of my home. I couldn't go anywhere. It confronted me from the moment I woke up. There would be 100 people at the lot where we shot 'The Partridge Family.'

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.

I think of my career as something apart from myself.

Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody in the room, and you can't with a venue any bigger than that.

Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I moved to New York City, and I got a job in a mail room, and I got an agent, doing what actors do, with head shots and all the rest of it.

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.

I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lose touch.

I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in many respects.

When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vignettes of the highlights of it - marriage, divorce, death, success, fame, loss. The up and the down and the up again.

Kids need role models, whether it's baseball players, actors or musicians: people to bring a little positive light into their hearts and minds. We need to be a little kinder to those people because it's not easy being that role model, looked upon as something we are all incapable of being - too perfect.

It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase.

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me.

I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work.

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors.

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved issues with my old man - I could never feel fulfilled and happy. I would wake up in the morning and feel bad.

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

I gave up my whole life to my career.

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.

Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

Most people view success by the results, and I don't.

What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Broadway with my brother Shaun.

In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the '90s are the best decade of my life. I've done the best work and, in a funny way, I'm enjoying the most success... more than in the '70s.

My father had a tremendous influence on me, and I think many children who come from broken homes, esp. when they're very early. My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. It was something in order to empower myself.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes

I would be devastated if my son could not have music as part of his curriculum in school. It should not be a choice between culture and technical training - well-rounded students and graduates will make appropriate choices for their careers, but they must also be trained to make appropriate social choices.

You know I got kicked out of high school and I used to go to Hendrix concerts. I used to go see Marvin Gaye and B.B. King and so here I am on television as an actor playing the part of this really sweet wholesome all American boy. The reality was I had a much different kind of teenage life.

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.

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.

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.