"My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life"
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The intent reads as gratitude, but also as a preemptive boundary. By pairing "personally and professionally", he closes the trapdoor that interviewers love to open: if the career was iconic but chaotic, if the personal life was complicated, which side is the "real" story? He refuses the tabloid split. The phrasing "I can't ask for a better life" is a rhetorical end-stop, a polite way to end the conversation on his terms. It signals: I'm not performing regret for you today.
In the context of a former heartthrob, the line doubles as an act of reclamation. Fame in the 1970s was loud and extractive; the public often expects the punchline to be decline. Cassidy instead offers a narrative of competence and wholeness, less a confession than a final edit: not the tragic teen star, not the nostalgia act, but an adult insisting that success is measured in more than the peak years everyone else keeps replaying.
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Cassidy, David. (n.d.). My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-life-has-flourished-in-so-many-ways-both-110954/
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Cassidy, David. "My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-life-has-flourished-in-so-many-ways-both-110954/.
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"My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-life-has-flourished-in-so-many-ways-both-110954/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.








