133 Quotes by David Cassidy

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.

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.

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

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.

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 saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.

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

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

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.