Danny Bonaduce Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

I am a proud participant of the Spencer Tracy School of Acting: Know your lines, don't bump into the furniture.

If you ever get rich and famous, by definition you are special. You have done something special, and therefore you start to behave special. Then if the floor drops out, and you become down and out, you have a really new perspective.

If you're a kid in Southern California, somebody - whether it's you or your parents - somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.

It's weird because horses kind of come and go in my life.

My Dad did not like me enough to hit. My dad thought he was disciplining. My dad never thought he was being abusive - ever. He always thought he was doing the right thing, and he did not like me enough to do the right thing by me. Which would have been to whip me - literally - into shape.

There is a weirdness about having a famous pre-pubescent in the house when you are going through the trials and tribulations of adolescence.

Trivia

For a brief time after The Partridge Family was cancelled, Danny worked for Kenny Rogers as a stable hand.

Host of the new game show StarFace.

Danny has been in rehab for drug and alcohol abuse in 1991, 2001 and 2005 (this one was during the filming of Breaking Bonaduce).

Danny has appered as a Radio Disc Jockey / Talk Show Host on the following radio stations: * Philadelphia (WEGX) * Phoenix (KKFR) 1990 - 1991 * Chicago (WLUP - morning show) 1996 - 1999 * Detroit (WKQI - Danny Bonaduce and the Q-Crew) 1996 - 1999 * New York (WNSR) * Los Angeles: Morning Show Star 98.7 (KYSR) 1999 - 2005

Danny is ranked #10 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars."

He married his first wife Setsuko Hattori in 1985 and divorced her in 1988.

Has studied martial arts under Chuck Norris for over 20 years.

He and his wife, Gretchen Bonaduce, met on a blind date, and they were married that same day.