“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.”

American actor and musician

David Cassidy was an American actor and musician. Born in 1950, he became widely known in the 1970s as Keith Partridge on the musical sitcom The Partridge Family. He died in 2017. He was also an international solo singer, with a career that reached far beyond his television fame. At one point, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world, and his work linked popular music and television stardom.