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Russell Brand Quotes | Quotes said by Russell Brand

  • Russell Brand Quote #1

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


  • Russell Brand Quote #2

    Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that YouTube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.

  • Russell Brand Quote #3

    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.

  • Russell Brand Quote #4

    Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants... I wish it would do more interesting things!

  • Russell Brand Quote #5

    Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies.

  • Russell Brand Quote #6

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

  • Russell Brand Quote #7

    Companies' motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.

  • Russell Brand Quote #8

    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.

  • Russell Brand Quote #9

    Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT.

  • Russell Brand Quote #10

    I am naïve and I have fucked up but I tell you something else. I believe in change. I don't mind getting my hands dirty because my hands are dirty already. I don't mind giving my life to this because I'm only alive because of the compassion and love of others.

  • Russell Brand Quote #11

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

  • Russell Brand Quote #12

    I didn't cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.

  • Russell Brand Quote #13

    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.

  • Russell Brand Quote #14

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

  • Russell Brand Quote #15

    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 Quote #16

    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 Quote #17

    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 Quote #18

    I think that there is an infinite creative force that generates all consciousness and all matter and we are all connected and if you align yourself with this infinite creative force then you can be positive and you can be beautiful, I don’t think its a person or god , I don’t believe in any particular doctrine or dogma, only that humanity is connected.

  • Russell Brand Quote #19

    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 Quote #20

    In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.

  • Russell Brand Quote #21

    In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.” A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted, divided, tyrannized, or anesthetized into compliance. Gandhi dealt with the colonization of nations by nations; we deal now with the colonization of consciousness by corporations.

  • Russell Brand Quote #22

    Interestingly, one mate of mine, a proper leftie, in his heyday all Red Wedge and right-on punch-ups, was melancholy. I thought I'd be overjoyed, but really it's just … another one bites the dust … This demonstrates, I suppose, that if you opposed Thatcher's ideas it was likely because of their lack of compassion, which is really just a word for love. If love is something you cherish, it is hard to glean much joy from death, even in one's enemies.

  • Russell Brand Quote #23

    Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq — that's got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.

  • Russell Brand Quote #24

    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? Would Great Ormond Street be so attractive a cause if its beds were riddled with obnoxious little criminals that had “brought it on themselves?

  • Russell Brand Quote #25

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

  • Russell Brand Quote #26

    My modus operandi is that I'll be content with anything, as long as I know that it's the best that's possible.

  • Russell Brand Quote #27

    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 Quote #28

    Oh, and 13.1 million American people had their homes foreclosed. Because their debt, it turns out, was real; it was only the debt within the financial sector that was imaginary. It was only the people who generated the crisis who got three magical wishes from an economic genie. There was no abracadabra for ordinary people; they just got abraca-fucked.

  • Russell Brand Quote #29

    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 Quote #30

    People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little while, so they say they're going to do things in anticipation of some kind of seismic shift in their worldview that never actually materialises. But everything's not going to be made of leather, the world won't stink of sherbet. Tomorrow is not some mythical kingdom where you'll grow butterfly wings and be able to talk to animals - you'll basically feel pretty much the same way you do at the moment.

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