Russell Brand Quotes - Page 3

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.

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.

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.

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.

I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.

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

Surfing should be called "foam-choking" or "sea stabbing.

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

I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Imagine the wisdom to be passed down from the classical Buddhist texts.

It's no wonder Bob Geldof knows so much about famine - he's been dining out on I Don't Like Mondays for 30 years.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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