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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I want to love. I want to enjoy 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I think of my career as something apart from myself. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.' "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "