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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. "
City
New York
Job
" 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. "
Myself
Day
World
" All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me. "
Me
Teen Idol
Teen
" 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. "
God
Tough
Talent
" As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life. "
Beau
Son
My Life
" 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. "
New
Me
Opinion
" Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits. "
Never
Hits
Doing
" Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. "
Really
Get
Every Day
" Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.' "
My Life
Family
Life
" 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. "
Play
Interesting
Back
" 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. "
People
Actor
Character
" 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. "
Fame
Women
Talk
" 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. "
Racing
Loved
Studying
" 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. "
Big
Singing
Nostalgia
" 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. "
World
Know
Listen
" I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished. "
Know
Trophies
Remind
" I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows. "
Play
Shows
Acts
" I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series. "
End
Want
Up
" 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! "
Lost
Family
Now
" If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your job. You've evoked something. "
You
People
Done
" If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father. "
Up
You
Add
" If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination. "
You
Got
Daydreamer
" I gave up my whole life to my career. "
Gave
Whole
Up
" I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious. "
Influences
Christian
Lot
" 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.' "
People
Home
Go
" I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. "
Goes
Year
Seventy
" 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. "
Culture
Know
Love
" I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk. "
Just
Good Work
Good
" 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. "
She
Eyes
Fat
" 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. "
Work
Good
Musicians
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