David Gest Quotes

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict. It is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

I drink to forget I drink.

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

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

You have problems, you think drink helps, then you have two problems.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

I was getting depressed, I was going out, having a few drinks and the worst thing you can do with depression is add alcohol to it.

I'd go into the pub and start crying even before I'd had my first drink.

I think when people are abusing drugs it is probably a symptom of a bigger problem that they need to address.

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

Oh, I can't sleep, whatever - it's a huge problem. The comedian's thing is you self-medicate with alcohol and knock yourself out - but obviously, that's not a long-term strategy.

To really enjoy drugs you've got to want to get out of where you are. But there are some wheres that are harder to get out of than others. This is the drug-taking problem for adults. Teenage Weltscbmerz is easy to escape. But what drug will get a grown-up out of, for instance, debt?

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

I didn't think I could go onstage and play unless I had a beer to loosen up. Well, if it was only one beer to loosen up, I'd probably still be drinking today.

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.