David Gest Quotes (49 Quotes)

She put her hands around the neck of our production manager, and you know, started to choke him.

You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.

And I told her point blank, you've got everything to live for. You've got such talent. You're back singing great, lose the weight. And she went and did it, and look at her now!

But she told me she was never going to drink again.

She took basically a year and a half of my life away, and I didn't know if I would ever be able to stand up for a few years.

I had just done a Michael Jackson 30th anniversary celebration. We did well over 20 million. And we owned that, Michael and I.

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

She got the magazine on a Wednesday morning, and on Thursday announced our marriage was over.

I was already set for life when I met her.

I didn't really feel I was being hurt, but you could feel it.

She bit my bodyguard. She bit him in the stomach.

She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.

I'm into women. I've always loved women.

She was making great money at personal appearances.

It looks like I'm this huge shark going in for the kill... I don't know what I was thinking.

I don't have to announce all the women I've slept with.

No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.

And I don't feel in any way responsible.

I cannot fly. I am on constant pills, I cannot go a day without them and I'm on constant shots, and in every way I feel right to sue her.

But when alcohol comes in, start running. Because there's a demon there, and it goes back to her childhood.

She'd hit me before but never over and over and over and over into the head.

If you're a man, you don't have to worry about your manliness.

Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.

I bought up the first two nights thinking if you can pack them the first two nights, by the time the reviews came out, she'd be able to sell tickets.

I didn't care if she worked. I never cared if Liza worked. I said, be a housewife. Go out and shop. Take the credit card.

On stage, don't go near her. She's the best performer in the world.

It was a real rough year and a half. I was getting 80 shots every four weeks.

I loved her fully and unconditionally.

And she could never give me an answer. And I realized that, you know, I had a problem on my hands.

But I thought love would more than prevail.

I only tried to love my wife.

I wanted to give her a normal life. I loved her. You know, it tore my heart out.

Yeah, she was hitting me hard. She was drunk and she was hitting me hard.

Because I would give it all back to have my health.

I don't know if I'll ever be the same.

There's a lot of men that have been beaten by women. It's just how do you handle it.

I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special - Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

The baby is the most important thing to us.

I can help a lot of other people who've gone through the same thing by building a center that will help men and women who don't have the funds to take care of themselves and get the medical treatment.

I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.

She was, as she said in interviews, basically broke. So I didn't marry her for anything that she could give me as far as financially. I just loved the woman. I mean, I just loved her, unconditionally loved her.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

I never had migraines. Never had migraines.

I did try to leave, and she came running after me.

No, but Liza took went and took away from me, possibly my livelihood.

Nothing can repay me for what has happened to my health. No 10 million, no 20 million, no 30 million, no 40 million.