Top 280 Russell Brand Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Divine Power, Supreme Truth, love within and without, guide me to a new way of being. Help me to put aside all previous thoughts and prejudices that I may be open to a “New Way”. I ask the creative power deep within me to guide me towards the person I was always meant to be, to seek out relationships and experiences that will move me closer to this Truth.”

— Russell Brand

52. “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

53. “If you don’t choose heroes, heroes will be chosen for you, and they will not represent values that empower you, they will represent powers that will enslave you.”

— Russell Brand

54. “You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.”

— Russell Brand

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

— Russell Brand

56. “The world isn’t made of atoms, it’s made of stories.”

— Russell Brand

57. “Change is hard, that’s why we can’t do it alone and why it is vital that we have a foundation of hope.”

— Russell Brand

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

— Russell Brand

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

— Russell Brand

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

— Russell Brand

61. “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

62. “We have been told that freedom is the ability to pursue petty, trivial desires when true freedom is freedom from these petty, trivial desires.”

— Russell Brand

63. “The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.”

— Russell Brand

64. “I couldn’t possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!”

— Russell Brand

65. “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.’”

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66. “The unmanageability at its heart means that there is a beast in me. It is in me still. I live in negotiation with a shadow side that has to be respected. There is a wound. I believe that this is more than a characteristic of addiction. I think it is a part of being human, to carry a wound, a flaw and again, paradoxically, it is only by accepting it that we can progress.”

— Russell Brand

67. “If you can be free from pride, self-pity, self-centeredness, selfishness, jealousy, envy, intolerance, impatience, greed, gluttony, lust, sloth, arrogance, and dishonesty, then there is a state of serenity and connectedness within.”

— Russell Brand

68. “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

69. “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

70. “People don’t realize that the future is just now, but later.”

— Russell Brand

71. “A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted, divided, tyrannized, or anesthetized into compliance.”

— Russell Brand

72. “We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn’t make us happy.”

— Russell Brand

73. “No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, ‘What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!’”

— Russell Brand

74. “Here is a postcard from the other side: fame, luxury items and glamour are not real and cannot solve you, whether it’s a pair of shoes, a stream of orgies, a movie career or global adulation. They are just passing clouds of imaginary pleasure.”

— Russell Brand

75. “If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can’t you just have some crisps?”

— Russell Brand

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

— Russell Brand

77. “Being human is a ‘me too’ business. We are all in the mud together.”

— Russell Brand

78. “If you’re a drug addict, often you’re stealing – I’ve gotten done for shoplifting a few times.”

— Russell Brand

79. “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

80. “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

81. “If anybody needs any help with anything, I’m prepared to help.”

— Russell Brand

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

— Russell Brand

83. “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

84. “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” said Gandhi. If you want a nonviolent world, you cannot use violence to achieve it. He also said, “In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.”

— Russell Brand

85. “Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.”

— Russell Brand

86. “Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.”

— Russell Brand

87. “The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That’s why it’s got the word con in it.”

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88. “Greatness looks like madness until it finds its context.”

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89. “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.”

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90. “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

91. “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

92. “Our social and economic systems are so devoid of humanity and love.”

— Russell Brand

93. “You’re a musician, it is important that you suffer!”

— Russell Brand

94. “People don’t throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.”

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95. “The very idea that you can somehow make your life alright by attaining primitive material goals – whether it’s getting the ideal relationship, the ideal job, a beautiful Berber rug or forty quids’ worth of smack – the underlying idea, ‘if I could just get X, Y, Z, I would be okay’, is consistent and it is quite wrong.”

— Russell Brand

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

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97. “Quentin Crisp, the English fop, wit, and subject of Sting’s song “Englishman in New York,” said, “Charisma is the ability to influence without logic.”

— Russell Brand

98. “As a person I’m a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.”

— Russell Brand

99. “Generally educational bodies do not exist to bring out your innate brilliance but to monger your wayward nature into a unit of manageable energy that will not be too disruptive to the social systems that benefit the powerful.”

— Russell Brand

100. “I come from there, there where I never belonged.”

— Russell Brand