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" 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. "
David Cassidy
Mother
Actor
Father
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" What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Broadway with my brother Shaun. "
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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. "
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" There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become musicians, to become actors. "
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" 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. "
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" We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Present
" I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious. "
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" 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.' "
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" I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds. "
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" 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! "
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" I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands. "
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" I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk. "
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" Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual. "
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" I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud of that and touching and inspiring people. "
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" Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.' "
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