Top 280 Russell Brand Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “That’s why we call this process Recovery; we recover the ‘you’ that you were meant to be.”

— Russell Brand

102. “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

103. “There’s no biological reason why a man shouldn’t just try to have sex with every woman he meets – all of them get pregnant and your genetics are winning.”

— Russell Brand

104. “Today’s ‘Sesame Street’ will NOT be brought to you by the number 34 or the letter D.”

— Russell Brand

105. “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

106. “Mark Twain, the thinking man’s Colonel Sanders, reputedly said, “America is New York, New Orleans, and San Francisco. Everywhere else is Cleveland.”

— Russell Brand

107. “Limitless consciousness, source of all light and love, please lay aside for me doubt and prejudice and give me willingness to believe that you can solve this problem, too, the way you have solved other problems.”

— Russell Brand

108. “When you bump into your own mom at an orgy, it’s hard not to get her to read into certain things.”

— Russell Brand

109. “Oxfam say a bus with the eighty-five richest people in the world on it would contain more wealth than the collective assets of half the earth’s population – that’s three-and-a-half billion people.”

— Russell Brand

110. “Socialism isn’t a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it’s just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.”

— Russell Brand

111. “The bad-boy label is just an assumption.”

— Russell Brand

112. “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

113. “The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one’s heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.”

— Russell Brand

114. “That I am just another human being dealing with life. If we all feel that we are alone, how alone are we? If we all feel worthless then who is the currency of our worth being measured against? Perhaps this program is a personal and social tool that illuminates the truth that religious people have long known and physicists have proven: all the energy that has ever existed has always existed and will always exist. Form and separation are temporary. We are all one.”

— Russell Brand

115. “In a sense we re-write our past. We change our narrative. We reprogram ourselves. There is no objective history, this we know, only stories. Our character is the result of this story we tell ourselves about ourselves, and the process of inventorying breaks down the hidden and destructive personal grammar that we have unwittingly allowed to govern our behaviour.”

— Russell Brand

116. “We’re naked under our clothes; we both know what it’s like to need to fart and hold it in, or not be able to get a hard-on, or worry that a bloke across the room might be looking at your bird and you might have to fight him but he looks well hard.”

— Russell Brand

117. “Part of that change is forgiveness and the willingness to look at our lives and the world differently. Ask yourself ‘Do I really want to change or do I just want to justify staying the way that I am?”

— Russell Brand

118. “I have no power at all over people, places and things, and if I ever for a moment mistakenly believe that I do, and act as if I do, pain is on its way.”

— Russell Brand

119. “When I was growing up, I thought I’d be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.”

— Russell Brand

120. “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

121. “Most people in the West belong to a popular cult of individualism and materialism where the pursuit of our trivial, petty desires is a daily ritual.”

— Russell Brand

122. “Everyone has their own mantra.”

— Russell Brand

123. “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

124. “If you’re chugging through life in a job you kind of dislike, a relationship that you are detached from, eating to cope, staring at Facebook, smoking and fruitlessly fantasizing, you can sit glumly on that conveyor belt of unconscious discontent until it deposits you in your grave.”

— Russell Brand

125. “In America, a country that, let’s face it, has really run with this whole capitalism thing, the six heirs to the Walmart fortune have more wealth than the poorest 30 percent of Americans.”

— Russell Brand

126. “Tumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut!”

— Russell Brand

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

— Russell Brand

128. “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.”

— Russell Brand

129. “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

130. “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

131. “Crisis is almost a blessing providing cessation of a kind, and with it, the opportunity for change.”

— Russell Brand

132. “It’s highly psychological, and very beautiful, and overwhelming, and real, and trippy!”

— Russell Brand

133. “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

134. “I’ve come off heroin twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The physical withdrawal doesn’t last that long, but then it’s just all psychological. I think it’s worse than cigarettes.”

— Russell Brand

135. “I keep hearing in my head “you are the Messiah, you are the Messiah”. I think there’s something wrong with my headphones.”

— Russell Brand

136. “We apply reality from within. The world is our perception of the world. So what other people think of you, famous or not, is an independent construct taking place in their brain, and we shouldn’t worry too much about it.”

— Russell Brand

137. “If you’ve got any concern at all about animal welfare, you’ve got to not eat meat.”

— Russell Brand

138. “A pain in the leg means ‘don’t put pressure on this leg’; a pain in the mind means ‘change the way you live’.”

— Russell Brand

139. “In the end the British will walk out because 100,000 British cannot control 350 million Indians if those Indians refuse to cooperate.” A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted, divided, tyrannized, or anesthetized into compliance. Gandhi dealt with the colonization of nations by nations; we deal now with the colonization of consciousness by corporations.”

— Russell Brand

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

— Russell Brand

141. “The most potent tool in maintaining the status quo is our belief that change is impossible.”

— Russell Brand

142. “Companies’ motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.”

— Russell Brand

143. “My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.”

— Russell Brand

144. “We are imprisoned within, hypnotized without, denying ourselves access to the internal peace and external harmony. Can we execute the perfect jailbreak when we have become our own jailers?”

— Russell Brand

145. “When you’re married, it’s one person. That’s one more than a monk. It’s not that different.”

— Russell Brand

146. “The revolution that’s required isn’t a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.”

— Russell Brand

147. “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

148. “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

149. “You need only allow gentle hope to enter your heart. Exhale and allow hope, and give yourself some time. This is a process of change that requires a good deal of self-compassion, which is neither stagnant nor permissive. We can just start by being a little kinder to ourselves and open to the possibility that life doesn’t have to be bloody awful.”

— Russell Brand

150. “This is why people get obsessed with festivals, or clubs, or drugs, or football, or other temporal approximations of togetherness; these distilled vials of the elixir are craved by our starved souls.”

— Russell Brand