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Russell Brand Quotes

Total quotes: 17
“Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
Tagged: Death, Murder, Patience
“If you regard alcoholics and drug addicts not as bad people but as sick people then we can help them to get better.”
— Russell Brand, Russell Brand: my life without drugs
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Drugs, Alcohol
“Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Tagged: Talent, Self-hatred
“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, My Booky Wook
Tagged: Confidence, inspiration, beauty
“Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Tagged: Life, appearances
“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, My Booky Wook
Tagged: Vegetarian, Drugs, Drug Addiction
“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, Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal
Tagged: Missing, Friendship, Distance
“My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Tagged: Life, embarrassing
“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, My Booky Wook
Tagged: Change, Value, beauty, Meaning
“Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.”
— Russell Brand, Russell Brand: my life without drugs
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Alcohol, Drugs, Recovering Addict
“The one measure of true love is: you can insult the other.”
— Russell Brand, Booky Wook 2: This Time It's Personal
Tagged: insults, Friendship, Love
“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, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Tagged: Relaxation, Life, Drugs
“I look to drugs and booze to fill up a hole in me.”
— Russell Brand, Russell Brand: my life without drugs
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Recovering Addict, Drugs, Alcohol
“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, My Booky Wook
Tagged: Sex, sexuality, Women
“Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more. Damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial.”
— Russell Brand, Articles of Faith
Tagged: Sadness, Pain, Spiritual
“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, Russell Brand My Life Without Drugs
Tagged: Drug Addiction, addict, Alcohol, Drugs
“The most insightful thing I ever heard, was overheard. I was waiting for a rail replacement bus in Hackney Wick. These two old women weren’t even talking to me - not because I’d offended them, I hadn’t, I’d been angelic at that bus stop, except for the eavesdropping. Rail replacement buses take an eternity, because they think they’re doing you a favor by covering for the absent train, you’ve no recourse.
Eventually the bus appeared, on the distant horizon, and one of the women, with the relief and disbelief that often accompanies the arrival of public transport said, ‘Oh look, the bus is coming.’ The other woman - a wise woman, seemingly aware that her words and attitude were potent and poetic enough to form the final sentence in a stranger’s book - paused, then said, ‘The bus was always coming.’”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Tagged: Hope, Life
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