David Gest Quotations

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.

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

But I thought love would more than prevail.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She was making great money at personal appearances.

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

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

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

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

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

I was already set for life when I met her.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

She just - when she wants a drink she goes and gets a drink.

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

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.

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.

Basically what happened was, she decided to remedy the problem and she checked herself in and it saved our lives.

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

Here we are on a vacation and out of nowhere she starts going to the mini-bar. And I come in and she's violent. And I was stunned.

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

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!

I never had migraines. Never had migraines.

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

It wasn't Liza Minnelli. It was the woman I loved.

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before. I mean, I produced a Frank Sinatra special-- Elizabeth Taylor, with Michael Jackson, Gregory Peck, I won't even take a picture.

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.

Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word.

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

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.

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

That she's the most beautiful woman in the world. And that this is who I wanted to spend the rest of my life with.

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

The baby is the most important thing to us.

Oh, I'm sure - everybody alienates - ah, people. But did it stop me from getting her everything she needed? Not at all.

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

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

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.

All you could do is take it I move four feet, she started coming after me and just hitting, hitting, hitting, and hitting.

And I don't feel in any way responsible.