Best 204 quotes of Russell Brand on MyQuotes

A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting heroin are wrong.

Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.

A Halloween-haired, Sachsgate-enacting, estuary-whining, glitter-lacquered, priapic berk How dare I, from my velvet chaise longue, in my Hollywood home like Kubla Khan, drag my limbs from my harem to moan about the system? A system that has posited me on a lilo made of thighs in an ocean filled with honey and foie gras'd my Essex arse with undue praise and money.

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.

All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as a disease that will kill. We need to review the way society treats addicts, not as criminals but as sick people in need of care.

Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.

... 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.

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.

And while we're on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, 'The Ugly Duckling' ought be banned as the central character wasn't a duckling or he wouldn't have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.

Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I'll feel most at ease.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear.  Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo.

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

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.

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

Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Don't listen to me. I'm a maniac, but the voice in your head, ask it "Is it right to kill 200 million animals simply for fun?". What did it say? Right. There you go.

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.

Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. "Igor, fetch 'the Crouch' from the catacombs, we're going to the graveyard".

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.

Every moment is a fresh new beginning... a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the Universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.

Executive producers don't have to do anything. Nor do any kind of producers. They just sit around on deck chairs watching stuff, and if it gets cold, they leave. Actually I suppose as a producer you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.

From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities - 'this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this is how you are when you are with your dad' - so it seemed like I could never absolutely be myself. And the image of myself as compromised and inconsistent made me want to withdraw from the world even further. I had a sense of formulating a paper-mache version of myself to send out in the world, while I sat controlling it remotely from some smug suburban barracks.

God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating heart of the creator from the universe's perfect birth. Stood in the thin air and the awe, one inhales God, involuntarily acknowledging that we are but fragments of a whole, a higher thing. The mountains remind me of my place, as a servant to truth and wonder. Yes, God is in the mountains. Perhaps the pulpit too and even in the piety of an atheist's sigh. I don't know; but I feel him in the mountains.

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?

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

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.

I am too busy thinking about killing myself.

I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!

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!

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

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.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

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

I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.

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.

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

If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies.

If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.

If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.

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.

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?

If you strip away self-effacement, charm and the spirit of mischief-qualities that make determination and ambition tolerable- you're left with a right ar**hole.

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

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.

I have never voted. Like most people I am utterly disenchanted by politics. Like most people I regard politicians as frauds and liars and the current political system as nothing more than a bureaucratic means for furthering the augmentation and advantages of economic elites.