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" Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream. "
David Cassidy
Dream
Racing
True
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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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Nothing
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" 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. "
David Cassidy
She
Eyes
Fat
" Nobody likes to be rejected, you know? "
David Cassidy
Likes
Know
You
" I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for me. "
David Cassidy
Me
Son
Never
" 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.' "
David Cassidy
People
You
Good
" 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. "
David Cassidy
Light
Easy
People
" 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. "
David Cassidy
Growing
Me
Guitar
" Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.' "
David Cassidy
My Life
Family
Life
" I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk. "
David Cassidy
Just
Good Work
Good
" I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive. "
David Cassidy
Always
Relationship
Special
" 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. "
David Cassidy
House
I Am
Lived
" 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. "
David Cassidy
Back
Teen
Present
" All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me. "
David Cassidy
Me
Teen Idol
Teen
" Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence. "
David Cassidy
Influence
Biggest
Definitely
" 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
" 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. "
David Cassidy
God
Tough
Talent
" 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.' "
David Cassidy
Racing
Reading
Family
" I gave up my whole life to my career. "
David Cassidy
Gave
Whole
Up
" Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved issues with my old man - I could never feel fulfilled and happy. I would wake up in the morning and feel bad. "
David Cassidy
My Life
Fear
Man
" I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies. "
David Cassidy
Life
Image
Great
" My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me. "
David Cassidy
Good
Me
Mother
" It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes. "
David Cassidy
Work
Money
Fame
" My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience. "
David Cassidy
Never
Connection
Music
" What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Broadway with my brother Shaun. "
David Cassidy
Credibility
Want
Doing
" 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. "
David Cassidy
Life
Death
Marriage
" My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts. "
David Cassidy
Concerts
Played
Were
" 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. "
David Cassidy
Amazing
Career
Last
" 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. "
David Cassidy
Fame
Women
Talk
" My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited. "
David Cassidy
Heights
Me
Remember
" I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am. "
David Cassidy
I Am
Self-Centered
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