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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. "

David Cassidy

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Life

Family

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this world, or why I should vote for George McGovern or Richard Nixon. I don't have enough time. "

" Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I gave up my whole life to my career. "

David Cassidy

Gave

Whole

" There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives. "

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

David Cassidy

People

Affection

" 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. "

" I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious. "

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

" Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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