110+ Russell Brand Quotes (Outrageous, Witty And Irreverent.)

Russell Brand is an English comedian, actor, author, and radio host. He is best known for his roles in films such as Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him to the Greek, and for hosting the MTV Video Music Awards in 2008. He is also known for his outspoken views on social and political issues, and is a prominent figure in the media.

Top 10 Russell Brand Quotes

1. By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.
2. As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion
3. You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.
4. 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.
5. The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.
6. 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.
7. I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.
8. I keep hearing in my head "you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah." I think there's something wrong with my headphones.
9. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.
• How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.
• I don't see why someone should lose their life just so you can have a snack.
• Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.
• I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
• It's highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!
• Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.
• Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions or death.
• Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut!
• We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

Russell Brand Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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 heroin 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

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

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

The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.' — Russell Brand

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

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

When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality. — Russell Brand

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Russell Brand

I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of it between the infrared and the ultraviolet - the narrow narrow corridor of light that we are able to perceive. — Russell Brand

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot. — Russell Brand

People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I really like women a lot; I'm repulsed by men sexually. — Russell Brand

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia. — Russell Brand

There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face. — Russell Brand

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? — Russell Brand

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. — Russell Brand

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

I suppose I'm qualified to some degree to speak about the nature of contemporary media, as that's where I currently work. People, I think have been beyond trained - coded to not anticipate change; to think that change is implausible. Almost weaned off. It had to be a revolution bred out of us. — Russell Brand

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

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

I think all of us are living in denial of our spiritual nature as we continue to participate in the material world even though we know we're destroying the planet we live on. — Russell Brand

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

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death. — Russell Brand

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

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

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

The Holy Spirit ain't got a pen. — Russell Brand

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

Consciousness does affect matter. — Russell Brand

Perhaps if we could popularise through the techniques of branding and consumerism, a different idea, a different narrative, perhaps the world can change. After all it changes constantly and incessantly, it's just the perceptions that we have are governed by people with self-interest and are not inalignment with the health and safety of us as individuals or as a planet. — Russell Brand

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

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

Sometimes when we're incensed by the rancid tide of injustice, the impulse is to attack. We must avoid this. We have learned that violence as a means is always unsuccessful. — Russell Brand

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

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

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration. — Russell Brand

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead. — Russell Brand

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

I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. — Russell Brand

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

Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one. — 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

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

It doesn't take an incredible manner of analysis to reveal that our primary desires are incessantly stimulated to keep us basic consumers. — 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. — Russell Brand

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

... 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. — Russell Brand

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

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

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different. — Russell Brand

Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction. — Russell Brand

You shouldn't eat animals, it's mean to them. — Russell Brand

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

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

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

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. — Russell Brand

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

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

What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing...having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity. — 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

People who say the system works work for the system. — 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

On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed. — Russell Brand

I am too busy thinking about killing myself. — Russell Brand

Marketing is all pervasive. They're getting marketed products they can't afford - can't ever hope to acquire. They believe the only way they're ever going to achieve happiness is the acquisition of these products. Products they can't afford. They see people living that lifestyle, and they have that lifestyle beamed incessantly into their minds through media, which you know I participate in. — Russell Brand

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

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

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 — Russell Brand

I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable. — Russell Brand

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

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. — Russell Brand

It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real. — Russell Brand

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

Life Lessons by Russell Brand

1. Russell Brand emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and self-reflection, encouraging us to take the time to look within ourselves and become aware of our own thoughts and feelings.
2. He also encourages us to question the status quo and challenge the systems and structures that are in place, encouraging us to think for ourselves and take responsibility for our own lives.
3. Lastly, he reminds us to remain open-minded and never stop learning, as this is the key to personal growth and development.