Russell Brand famous quotes

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

#Humanity #And Love #Economic

The happiest moments in our life aren't "Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble." But it's when you connect with another human being. If you can find the $18 in your pocket, you are purchasing dreams with that money.
-- Russell Brand

#Dream #Hats #Pockets

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

#Spiritual #Long #Illusion

The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.
-- Russell Brand

#Falling In Love #Heart #Purpose

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Writing #Thinking #Worry

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Stuff #Helping #Cold

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

#Ideas #Revolution #Radical

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

#Falling In Love #Fall #Love Of My Life

I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school — it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
-- Russell Brand

#Children #Regret #School

I liked Bugs Bunny. He was pretty good. He's annoying as a duck and he's anti-proletarian. Daffy Duck I couldn't see what was going on with him. He seemed like he was angry about something. My favorite one though is Pinocchio. I liked that kid. He was made of wood. I liked that for a start. I also liked how he'd tell a lie and his nose would grow. I liked the morality of that.
-- Russell Brand

#Lying #Kids #Ducks

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.
-- Russell Brand

#People #Might #Yearning

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Children #Crazy #Kids

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

#Nice #Hunting #People

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Children #Thinking #Different

What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of oneness. I'm quite an erratic thinker, quite an adrenalized person, but through meditation, I found this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. My tendency towards selfishness, I felt that kind of exposed as a superficial and pointless perspective to have. I felt very relaxed, a sense of oneness. I felt love.
-- Russell Brand

#Beautiful #Ideas #Oneness

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

#Drug #Criminals #Problem

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Running #Powerful #Party

I've come off ***** twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The physical withdrawal doesn't last that long, but then it's just all psychological. I think it's worse than cigarettes.
-- Russell Brand

#Thinking #Long #Withdrawal

Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
-- Russell Brand

#Children #Fighting #Rebel

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

#People #Quitting #Heroin

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Stupid #Giving #Mind

Normally, I'm good at first dates, 'cause that's the only date I ever have, so I know how to control it and be confident.
-- Russell Brand

#Firsts #Causes #First Date

The utilities and facilities of major corporations can be confiscated and given to democratic collectives
-- Russell Brand

#Corporations #Given #Democratic

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.
-- Russell Brand

#Boys #Labels #Assumption

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Character #Careers #Self

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Powerful #Creativity #Two

There's no biological reason why a man shouldn't just try to have sex with every woman he meets - all of them get pregnant and your genetics are winning.
-- Russell Brand

#Sex #Winning #Men

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

#Love You #Thorough #Turns

If you're a drug addict, often you're stealing - I've gotten done for shoplifting a few times.
-- Russell Brand

#Drug #Done #Stealing

Nigel Farage and Sean Hannity is like a super group of idiots.
-- Russell Brand

#Groups #Idiot

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!
-- Russell Brand

#Jobs #Progress #News

Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.
-- Russell Brand

#Doe #Loud

I'm buying things for people I don't even know. I'm like Willy Wonka, but more manipulative. Imagine if Willy Wonka had a devious goal.
-- Russell Brand

#Goal #People #Buying

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Ocean #Different #Sometimes

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

#Ideas #People #Giving

The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.
-- Russell Brand

#Pain #Addiction #Priorities

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Liars #Mean #People

I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can't be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
-- Russell Brand

#Selfish #People #Care

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

#People #Apathy #Addresses

People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.
-- Russell Brand

#Lying #People #Bags

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

#Jail #Addiction #Serious

What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I could have passed on to her the solution that was freely given to me. Don’t pick up a drink or drug, one day at a time. It sounds so simple; it actually is simple but it isn’t easy; it requires incredible support and fastidious structuring.
-- Russell Brand

#Simple #Addiction #Support

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

#Vegetarian #Vulnerable #Treats

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

#Ideas #People #Feels

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

#Religious #May #Doctrine

We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of ***** to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.
-- Russell Brand

#Weed #Silly #Wine

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.
-- Russell Brand

#Drinking #Addiction #Alcohol

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Beautiful #Moving #Trying

No-one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.
-- Russell Brand

#Self #Ideas #People

See all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.
-- Russell Brand

#Ideas #Drawing #Paper

I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.
-- Russell Brand

#Beautiful #People #Want

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
-- Russell Brand

#Beautiful #Believe #Recovery

I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard to dispute, and breathing, but a lot of things we instinctively obey are a lot of old tosh.
-- Russell Brand

#Thinking #Breathing #Arbitrary

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 #Humanity #Alternatives

I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.
-- Russell Brand

#Snacks #Vegetarian #Should

I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.
-- Russell Brand

#Yoga #Vegetarian

People who say the system works work for the system.
-- Russell Brand

#People

To this day, I feel a fierce warmth for women that have the same disregard for the social conventions of sexual protocol as I do. I love it when I meet a woman and her sexuality is dancing across her face, so it's apparent that all we need to do is nod and find a cupboard.
-- Russell Brand

#Dancing #Faces #Needs

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Thinking #Ideas #People

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.
-- Russell Brand

#Thinking #Drug #Needs

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

#Sex #Grammar #Slender

Drugs and alcohol are not my problem — reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution.
-- Russell Brand

#Reality #Alcohol #Drug