Russell Brand Quotes

“Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.”

— Russell Brand

“I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't fuck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.”

— Russell Brand

“What I've learnt - to my cost - on several occasions in my life, is that people will put up with all manner of bad behaviour so long as you're giving them what they want. They'll laugh and get into it and enjoy the anecdotes and the craziness and the mayhem as long as you're going your job well, but the minute you're not, you're fucked. They'll wipe their hands of you without a second glance.”

— Russell Brand

“All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.”

— Russell Brand

I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.

— Russell Brand

“Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.”

— Russell Brand

“When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.”

— Russell Brand

“It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of roaring heterosexuality. Traditional, uncomplicated heterosexuality, an almost cliched Robin Askwith thing.”

— Russell Brand

“Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.”

— Russell Brand

“I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'”

— Russell Brand

“As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.”

— Russell Brand

“The bad-boy label is just an assumption.”

— Russell Brand

Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.

— Russell Brand

“Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.”

— Russell Brand

“Spurred by Amy's death I've tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.”

— Russell Brand

“If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealousy, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.”

— Russell Brand

“I know change is possible, I know there is an alternative, because I live a completely different life to the one I was born with. I also know that the solution is not fame or money or any transient adornment of the individual. The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.”

— Russell Brand

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it's not real-that's why it's got the word "con" in the middle of it.

— Russell Brand

“The nation state is a relatively modern idea, and I don't think we're getting a lot out of it except for flags and World Cups.”

— Russell Brand

“I sometimes cuddled her too hard so that she would yelp. "Here, have some of my painful love," my febrile embrace would tell her. "It is constrictive and controlling and painful, like all love should be." In later life, I have come to realize that any expression of love which ends in a yelp probably requires modification.”

— Russell Brand

“Whatever I endure in recovery, I need never again suffer the indignity of active addiction. The despair and hopelessness. The inexhaustible cycle of incremental self-immolation. I am reminded of how far I've come, of the miracle that, with help and humility, I can, one day at a time, live free from drugs and alcohol.”

— Russell Brand

“Usually, when I've met the people who are meant to be in a position of power, I've always made sure to give them a damn good soul stare-y'know, look right in their eyes, through the blackness of the pupils and into whatever conscious field exists within. Then lock the eyes on, but let them gently defocus so that the defined parameters of the visual physical go blurry and you can feel the energy behind it, the unseeable energy that isn't made of photons. Then, if your mind is quiet, you will be informed of the quality of their essence, or at least of the manifest persona that they believe themselves to be.”

— Russell Brand

We are imprisoned within, hypnotized without, denying ourselves access to the internal peace and external harmony. Can we execute the perfect jailbreak when we have become our own jailers?

— Russell Brand

“The six heirs to the Walmart fortune have more wealth than the poorest 30 per cent of Americans.”

— Russell Brand

“When I was an atheist it was because I rejected authority, and why not reject the supreme authority of God, particularly that boring fucker on Songs of Praise. I could reject him with the unsentimental dispatch of a clipped toenail. When I got clean from drugs and alcohol, I saw that the way I'd always seen the world was limited. It will always be limited. By yielding authority to a benign power, I found a key to transcend previous limitations.”

— Russell Brand

I don't like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don't come at the end of it.

— Russell Brand

“Consciousness does affect matter.”

— Russell Brand

“I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of narcotics is the deliberate inhibition of human consciousness.”

— Russell Brand

What I might do is watch Mrs Doubtfire. Or Dead Poets Society or Good Will Hunting and I might be nice to people, mindful today how fragile we all are, how delicate we are, even when fizzing with divine madness that seems like it will never expire.

— Russell Brand

“Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And what is the most powerful of these energies? The energy that patriarchy and misogyny constantly try to repress. The divine female sexual energy. The creative energy of the female. That is why I worship divine sexual female energy.”

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“We don't need to know what goes on beyond time. We need to know how to save this planet that we live on. To align our consciousness with the fundamental frequencies with which all have in common, and to generate love and energy between us.”

— Russell Brand

“Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."”

— Russell Brand

“I really love to be with people. It's nice, that. To have achieved sudden intimacy with strangers is perhaps the most human thing you can do. We all love our friends and families, as much as we hate them. When you can achieve intimacy with strangers, it's very exciting and heartening.”

— Russell Brand

Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as opposed to a simplistic litiginous text to direct the behavior of human beings?

— Russell Brand

“I don't get my authority from this preexisting paradigm which is quite narrow and only serves a few people. I look elsewhere for alternatives that might be of service to humanity.”

— Russell Brand

“People who say the system works work for the system.”

— Russell Brand

“You're a musician, it is important that you suffer!”

— Russell Brand

“I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.”

— Russell Brand

“We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.”

— Russell Brand

“Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.”

— Russell Brand

“If you've got any concern at all about animal welfare, you've got to not eat meat.”

— Russell Brand

I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah". I think there's something wrong with my headphones.

— Russell Brand

“If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.”

— Russell Brand

“I get fixated when I'm bleeding
I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.”

— Russell Brand

“Since Steve Jobs died I cannot bear to see anyone use an iPhone irreverently, what I did was a tribute to his memory.”

— Russell Brand

Im happy to be a part of the conversation, if more young people are talking about fracking instead of twerking were heading in the right direction. The people that govern us dont want an active population who are politically engaged, they want passive consumers distracted by the spectacle of which I accept I am a part.

— Russell Brand

“It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!”

— Russell Brand

Today's 'Sesame Street' will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.

— Russell Brand

Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone ...

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“If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can't you just have some crisps?”

— Russell Brand