David Geffen

We got killed in Newsweek.

While several parties have expressed interest in buying the company, I’m not shopping it, I haven’t sold it and I’m not about to sell it.

If you’re successful, people will talk about you. There’s nothing you can do about it. People make up stories.

It isn’t about how tall you are or how good-looking you are or whether or not you can play football. It’s about whether you can create a relationship.

In the field of art, to be able to have lunch with Kirk Varnedoe is thrilling. I met him at Si and Victoria Newhouse’s dinner one night. Barnett Newman’s widow was there. That’s the part of me that’s a fan. Like when I was a kid and went to the Brooklyn Paramount. Well, my interest has expanded, and it’s not just rock-and-roll.

I had worked for Warner Brothers most of my adult life, and I was totally enthralled by the world that this guy had created. So I bought the house. And I sold Warner Brothers all the scripts, the Oscars, the mementoes for $3 million, which they’re going to use for a museum. I sold some of the rest of the stuff for $7 million. And I kept millions of dollars of furniture and silver. So I was really paying about $34 million for prime Beverly Hills property.

Everyone should have enough money to get plastic surgery

I have an attention span that’s as long as it has to be.

The first thing to do is be happy with yourself and appreciate your body-only then should you try to change things about yourself.

I didn’t have high self-esteem when I was a teenager, as I think most teenagers don’t.

Didn’t want y’all to call me fat, so I got liposuction. And they gave me opioids.

I have never been insecure, ever, about how I look, about what I want to do with myself. My mum told me to only ever do things for myself, not for others.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

No matter who you are, no matter where you come from, you are beautiful.

I had plastic surgery because I was trying to look good for y’all.

I don’t wanna be afraid. I wanna wake up feeling beautiful, today.

I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.

Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty.

I’m a lightweight, easy to fall easy to break.

It doesn’t have to take over your life, it doesn’t have to define you as a person, it’s just important that you ask for help. It’s not a sign of weakness.

For a long time I hated my body, because I was constantly suffering. But now I look at it like an old Mercedes with chrome bumpers. It costs a fortune to repair, it breaks down all the time, you can only use it once a week, the seat leather is starting to crack – but nonetheless it’s mine.