Russell Brand Quotes - Page 4

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.

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

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

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.

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.

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

Imagining the overthrow of the current political system is the only way I can be enthused about politics.

Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.

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

I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.

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

The more people who have access to this vital information the better society will be.

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

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

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.

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

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?

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

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 materializes. 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.

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

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

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.

This is no time for drinking a mug of water - which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don't drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink... mug of water.

It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process.

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