David Cassidy Quotes
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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.
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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.'
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It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
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All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
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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.
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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.'
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I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.
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I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
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It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
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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.
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It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
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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.
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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.
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If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.
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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.
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What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Broadway with my brother Shaun.
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I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
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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.
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Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
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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.
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Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
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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.
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The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
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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.