David Cassidy Quotes

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

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

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.

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.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

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.

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

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.

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.

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.

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.

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

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.

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.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

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.

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.

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.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.

My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.

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

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.

In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.

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.

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

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.

All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.

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.

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.

I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model.