Russell Brand Quotes

When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

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

Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.

The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.

It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.

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

... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be.

I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

You can’t absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes thing are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other with any situation.

Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

Revolt in whatever way we want, with the spontaneity of the London rioters, with the certainty and willingness to die of religious fundamentalists or with the twinkling mischief of the trickster... Take to the streets, together, with the understanding that the feeling that you aren't being heard or seen or represented isn't psychosis; it's government policy.

I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless.

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

I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!

If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.

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.

Question all information when you receive it. You might not even trust me Look at me, I've got a blanket over me head.

Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.

How long is it polite to continue to be interested in what someone says after they reveal they've got a boyfriend?

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.

I've never had a sustained period of medication for mental illness when I've not been on other drugs as well. It's just not something that I particularly feel I need. I know that I have dramatically changing moods, and I know sometimes I feel really depressed, but I think that's just life. I don't think of it as, "Ah, this is mental illness," more as, "Today, life makes me feel very sad." I know I also get unnaturally high levels of energy and quickness of thought, but I'm able to utilize that.

The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.

I'm a vegetarian. I believe that we're all equal. I ain't got no right to kill. Say a fly comes in my house, I tolerate that little a**hole.

If anybody needs any help with anything, I'm prepared to help.

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

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

I say us - obviously I don't vote as I believe democracy is a pointless spectacle where we choose between two indistinguishable political parties, neither of whom represent the people but the interest of powerful business elites that run the world.

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.

My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.

Consciousness does affect matter.

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?

Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth. Half the world is starving, and the other’s going, ‘I don’t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things.

What I liked about it is in the world of children, there are very, very different rules and a kind of naivete and innocence and sweetness that's been beautifully captured, I think, by this film as you can even see gesturing toward the film's poster on display nearby from this gorgeous artwork.

The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love.

And I don't think we should be continuing to propagate the idea that famous people are magical or special because it makes people feel like their lives ain't no good.

I'll not be changing, but America will.

As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

There's an interconnectivity between what's in the consciousness of cat and what's in the consciousness of us.

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

Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.

Then, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?