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Leif Garrett

(1961) Actor United States

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Leif Garrett is an actor from the United States, best known for Idol Truth.

Quick Facts About Leif Garrett

Born: November 8, 1961
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Idol Truth
Known for: I was made for dancin', New York City Nights, You had to go and change on me

About Leif Garrett

Leif Garrett is an American actor, singer, and television personality, who was a teen idol in the 1970s. He later received much publicity for his drug abuse and legal troubles.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Leif Garrett

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

Beach

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

Life

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

Slave

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

Circuits

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

Bed

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You have to change musically. Bubble gum pop was good for the first time you have sex. They didn't want to give…

Bubble gum

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I have no problem with starting from scratch.

No problem

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

Frank

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I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Learning

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

Finance

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

Back

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

First place

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

Accidents

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

Comeback

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

Believe

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

Extremist

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I smoked heroin for six years. Kicking the habit? Hard wasn't the word for it.

Habits

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

Company

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

Time

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

Regret

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

Ends

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

Critics

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Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.

Aerosmith

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I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to…

Charity

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