Top 55 David Cassidy Quotes

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!

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.’

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.

I’ve really sensed that people have an affection for me.

I think of my career as something apart from myself.

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.

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.

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

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

You cannot make a teenage idol.

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.

Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in ‘EFX.’

I’ve had an awful lot of good fortune.

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

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

I want to love. I want to enjoy life.

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

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 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.

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

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.

My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.

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.

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 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’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.

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.

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

I saw Jimi Hendrix – it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.

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

I work for me, 18 hours a day. It’s my gig. So I don’t have time to get a point of view.

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

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.

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.