David Gest Quotes

You know, what we do know is that there is a high frequency of violence in the home of those who bully.

She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

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

My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.

The only thing worse than domestic violence or abuse is being accused of it when you haven't done it.

'Firelight' is a beautiful story about a lot of young women. My character, Caroline, is a girl who has a bad boyfriend, and he ends up getting her locked up and incarcerated.

Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.

My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you'd imagine enmeshed in domestic violence.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.

Violence against women in this country is not levied against just Democrats, but Republicans as well... not just rich people or poor people. It knows no gender, it knows no ethnicity, it knows nothing.

Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

The only thing my old man ever gave me was a beating.

Hopefully as a result of 'The Frozen Ground,' more and more people will be aware of the horrible things that happen to ladies all over the world and give them respect. This movie is a love letter to those victims.

We can't allow domestic violence to become a campaign issue.

When you live in an alcoholic family or an abusive family, you tiptoe, you don't want to step on any mines.

Beat your wife on the wedding day, and your married life will be happy.

Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it wasn't just in my family. Sometimes, you'd see, you know, Mom fighting with one of her boyfriends. But a lot of times, you'd see people exploding on each other in a local restaurant or on the street.

We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.

Domestic violence is much more prevalent than people realize.

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

My wife and daughters have faced vile and violent threats.

Let's not glamorize abuse.