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" In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though I had some successful shows and hit records. Now, I have to say, the '90s are the best decade of my life. I've done the best work and, in a funny way, I'm enjoying the most success... more than in the '70s. "

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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. "

David Cassidy

City

New York

Job

" It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older. "

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

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

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

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

David Cassidy

Son

Never

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

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

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

David Cassidy

Believe

Celebrity

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" You cannot make a teenage idol. "

" 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. "

David Cassidy

Bad

Never

" 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.' "

David Cassidy

People

Home

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am. "

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

David Cassidy

People

Affection

" Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence. "

" 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. "

" 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. "