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" What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it. "

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" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before. "

David Cassidy

Back

Never

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

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

David Cassidy

Believe

Celebrity

" 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. "

" 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. "

David Cassidy

New

Opinion

" You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear after that. Maybe I've lucked out because I came back and went to work. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" It is difficult to be famous and that successful where you can't even walk down the street without people chasing you, and having people build monuments to you and worshiping you - all that stuff - but I never took that to a place where I believed it. I saw it as being temporary and a phase. "

" It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone? "

" I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lose touch. "

" If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road. "

" In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us. "

" 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. "

" I've had an awful lot of good fortune. "

" My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I. "

David Cassidy

Dad

Mom

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" You cannot make a teenage idol. "

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