Donny Osmond quotes

Donny Osmond is an American musician, singer, and entertainer who rose to fame as a teen idol in the 1970s. He achieved major success both as a solo artist and as a member of the Osmonds musical family. He continues to perform and participate in television and stage productions. Here are 39 of his quotes:

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

Donny Osmond

I try to be a good guy and I fall short sometimes, but I use Christ as an example.

Donny Osmond

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

Donny Osmond

You have to believe in yourself, otherwise you can't do it. If you don't believe in yourself, how do expect anyone else to? Because ultimately, you're the one who has to do it.

Donny Osmond

Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.

Donny Osmond

Our father taught us such a work ethic that if there's something worth doing, it's worth doing well.

Donny Osmond

Sometimes people take it for granted that they had success, especially nowadays when you have instant stardom. A lot of people feel entitlement and nobody is entitled to anything.

Donny Osmond

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

Donny Osmond

I am fine with 'Puppy Love.' I hated it for a while. But I still sing it. I have a country version, a sexy version and a cheesy nightclub version. I am trying to infuse it with maturity. I will never escape that song. I will always be Mr. 'Puppy Love.'

Donny Osmond

You always draw from your roots. I'm influenced by everything I hear and see, and that includes music today, but obviously I go back to my early influences: Stevie Wonder, Parliament, Earth, Wind & Fire, Ohio Players, Average White Band. Those kind of artists are what I look to. When I hear that stuff on the radio, I turn it up!

Donny Osmond

You know, I always wondered what it would have been like to just go to school, play football with the guys and go to the prom. Just like a 'regular person.'

Donny Osmond

I love cranberry juice, but I'm not a coffee drinker - as a Mormon, I avoid caffeine.

Donny Osmond

I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.

Donny Osmond

I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.

Donny Osmond

I went from an innocent child to a national television star. My career took on a life of its own.

Donny Osmond

I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze.

Donny Osmond

I'm going to be true to what I want to do, because if I care what people think about me, I'm a puppet. Which I have been in my life. And you can't live life that way, man!

Donny Osmond

I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it.

Donny Osmond

I got fitter when I did 'Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.' I wore a loincloth - that's a lot of motivation!

Donny Osmond

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, and here we are still going strong after 40 years.

Donny Osmond

I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22. It's called show business: The word 'business' is in it, and you've got to be a businessman. But then again, you have to be true to yourself as an artist.

Donny Osmond

I didn't grow up with Broadway music. My mother played Perry Como, while I listened to Andy Williams records. Later on it was Cream, Grand Funk Railroad and lots of R&B like the Isley Bros. and Parliament.

Donny Osmond