Leif Garrett Quotes

#1. I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

Willie Aames

#2. I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue.

Ronnie Spector

#3. Being a teen idol or being a heartthrob on all the magazines, with Shaun Cassidy, Leif Garrett, and Scott Baio - it was embarrassing! I never understood it. I mean, why me? I never really got it.

Willie Aames

#4. When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Leif Garrett

#5. They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

Leif Garrett

#6. You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give the OK on some really good music. It was the frustration of being signed to that label. I was depressed.

Leif Garrett

#7. I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

Leif Garrett

#8. I kind of viewed '50/ 50' and 'Warm Bodies' both as my next films after 'The Wackness.' In my head, I was just like, 'I'll try the big, fun, adventure-weird movie, and I'll do the small, heartfelt comedy-drama, and one of them will probably work out, and I'll get to work more.'

Jonathan Levine

#9. I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Leif Garrett

#10. I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

Leif Garrett

#11. I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures

Drake

#12. The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

Leif Garrett

#13. Maybe I hadn't been a big dating success because I was a boring person, but possibly it had been because I had limited tolerance for all this preliminary maneuvering and signal reading. - Aurora

Charlaine Harris

#14. I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

Leif Garrett

#15. I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.

Leif Garrett

#16. Breathe in the sweet air of limitless possibility, and make life as rich as you know it can be.

Ralph Marston

#17. I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

Leif Garrett

#18. I have no problem with starting from scratch.

Leif Garrett

#19. Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.

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#20. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. So create who and what you are, and then experience that.

Neale Donald Walsch

#21. There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

Leif Garrett

#22. Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

Leif Garrett

#23. Certain mountains were that way, like the Bighorns. The air around them was so clear you could ride toward them for days without seeming to get any closer. And yet, if you kept riding, you would get to the mountains. He was not so sure he would ever get to Lorie.

Larry McMurtry

#24. Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Leif Garrett

#25. Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

Leif Garrett

#26. Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

Leif Garrett

#27. Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.

Leif Garrett

#28. Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

Leif Garrett

#29. Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

Leif Garrett

#30. Not in government or force, not in slavery or war, but in the creative, and thereby spiritual, power of freedom, shall our inspiration be found.

F. A. Harper

#31. I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

Leif Garrett

#32. Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

Leif Garrett