Top 280 Russell Brand Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “We crave connection, but so much of the time we are not alive, neutralized. Who are you when you’re listening to the radio in traffic? You are not you, you are on standby. Mostly we are free-floating and disengaged, lost in the spectacle.”

— Russell Brand

202. “Don’t make excuses for your behaviour’ and ‘Let them speak’ would’ve made a world of difference.”

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203. “If people associate you with the idea of loads of money, they in turn will give some of that money to you.”

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204. “I always felt I was rather too clever for something like a ‘program for living’, certainly one that had any religious overtones. It’s not that I thought that religion was ‘the opiate of the masses’, if it was, I would’ve had some, I loved opium. It’s that I thought it was dumb. Drab, dry, dumb, shouty, hysterical, dumb. Small-town dumb. Foreign dumb.”

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205. “Even in name, he seems like a Victorian oddity. “Igor, fetch ‘the Crouch’ from the catacombs, we’re going to the graveyard”.”

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

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207. “Animals, children, and the working class comprise the company in which I’ll feel most at ease.”

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208. “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.”

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209. “Step 1 invites us to admit that we are using some external thing, a relationship, a drug or a behaviour as the ‘power’ that makes our life liveable. It asks if this technique is making our life difficult. By admitting we are ‘powerless’ over whatever it is, we are saying we need a new power, that this current source of power is more trouble than it’s worth.”

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210. “As a producer, you’ve got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.”

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211. “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.”

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212. “It seems to me that a lot of people are using religious arguments to advance their own prejudices.”

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213. “I know change is possible, I know there is an alternative, because I live a completely different life to the one I was born with. I also know that the solution is not fame or money or any transient adornment of the individual. The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.”

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214. “Sell me phones and food and prejudice, low cost and low values, low-frequency thinking. We are in a cult by default. We just can’t see it because its boundaries lie beyond our horizons.”

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215. “A theist is a person who has seen through the material and mechanical world and doesn’t commit suicide’.”

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216. “We are nature; we are nature as we munch gum and check the phone; we are nature as we queasily regret our imperfection, turning the glossy page, turning our glossy stomachs; we are nature as we hear them witter inanely on the radio, desecrating the silence with the violence of their idiocy and dumb verdicts, chattering and grooming, picking through the ticks in their hair, marveling at new minutia.”

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217. “When I look back, it’s not those misdeeds that I regret – I’d do them again, I tells ya – but the times when I conformed. I regret that I didn’t realize that actually they’ve got no power over you at school – it’s all just a trick to indoctrinate you into being a conditioned, tame, placid citizen. Rebel, children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory. As.”

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218. “My belief is that we do not currently operate on a frequency of consciousness that is capable of interpreting the information required to understand the great mystery. I.”

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219. “In spite of the anguish my addiction to drugs and alcohol has caused me, I wouldn’t relinquish its lessons.”

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220. “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.”

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

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222. “For me, it’s standard. I don’t feel irresponsible for telling kids not to vote; I feel like I deserve a Blue Peter badge for not telling them to riot. For not telling them that they are entitled to destroy the cathedrals of tyranny erected to mock them in the heart of their community. That they should rise up and destroy the system that imprisons them, ignores them, condemns and maligns them. By any means necessary.”

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223. “The police force in America pledge to “protect and serve.” That would actually be dandy if it were happening. Bill Hicks used to joke that he’d like to hijack a typically unpunctual plane and force it to go to its scheduled destination on time.”

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224. “Behind our damaged perceptions there is usually a fear that pertains to a core belief. This core belief is a key line in the code of our personal misery: if we expose, address and alter it, we can be free.”

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225. “You can never quench your spiritual craving through material means.”

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226. “Maybe a life of devotion doesn’t need to be robes and chanting; maybe it’s just going through life with open eyes and an open mind, looking out for chances to help people and buzz on the altruistic zip it gives, like coins in Mario Land.”

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227. “Being on that stage was the headiest intoxicant I’d yet sampled. I loved it so much that from that moment on I thought, “I’m doing this now, I’ll do whatever it takes.” I’d had my head filled with my dad’s motivation tapes: “You can do whatever you want. Focus on what your goal is, refuse to fail.” I.”

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228. “There’s a theme that runs throughout my childhood of adults taking me to one side to utter these unbelievable things.”

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229. “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. 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.”

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230. “When you get Richard Dawkins yapping menopausally at some poor hamstrung old archbishop, while we dismantle our environment due to the materialistic, pessimistic principles that the atheistic tyranny of the day is tacitly sponsoring, it is time to look for a new story.”

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231. “I’ve learned that it is important to be beautiful to people. That all that matters is that you are lovely to the people around you and the people that you meet. It doesn’t matter if you’re a show off or a little bit vain, as long as you’re good to your mum, and that you’re kind, and that you’re lovely. And that everything is transient and superficial and to not get attached to material things because you’re going to lose it all. And the only thing that is constant is love.”

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232. “Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.”

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233. “The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality” Charles Baudelaire.”

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234. “I deplore those long brown curly fingernail folk. I don’t even especially like people who have one long thumbnail for guitar. My mate Karl has one, and it scratched me the other day. I was sickened.”

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235. “The way I’ve been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.”

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236. “From quite early on, I had this idea of compartmentalized identities – ‘this is how you are when you are with your mum, and this is how you are when you are with your dad’ – so it seemed like I could never absolutely be myself. And the image of myself as compromised and inconsistent made me want to withdraw from the world even further. I had a sense of formulating a paper-mache version of myself to send out in the world, while I sat controlling it remotely from some smug suburban barracks.”

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237. “We have been segregated and severed, from each other and even from ourselves. We have been told that freedom is the ability to pursue our petty, trivial desires when true freedom is freedom from these petty, trivial desires.”

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238. “Me and the plan just need a bit more time’, I used to think, a bit more time and a bottle of wine, a bit more time and one more pipe, a bit more time and a slice of cake, a bit more time and a threesome, for luck.”

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239. “To make the world work for 100 percent of humanity in the shortest possible time through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.”

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240. “In a worrying template for later sexual activity, my first and second kisses occurred within seconds of each other, with different girls.”

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241. “The important prizes can’t be won by individuals, only by us all.”

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242. “Now, I don’t want to come over all cynical, but doesn’t that imply that you could dispense with the entire democratic process and simply award power to the party with the most money in its campaign fund? Yes. It does. Maybe not always, just every, single time in history so far.”

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243. “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? Would Great Ormond Street be so attractive a cause if its beds were riddled with obnoxious little criminals that had “brought it on themselves?”

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244. “That’s what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality.”

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245. “Plus how much time have I given over to watching TV or staring out of windows or pursuing pointless relationships or looking at my Twitter mentions? Those hours all add up and are sadly deducted from the overall life total. They are not a break from life, these ‘harmless’ distractions, they are life. They are life and they are death.”

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246. “I couldn’t go on living like this. I had to become successful. “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 afterward.” And at this juncture I was finally willing to do whatever it was going to take to bring that about – up to and including giving up drugs. From that moment on, I really did take things, in the textbook rehab fashion, one day at a time. An.”

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247. “I felt that I was finally in alignment: that at last I was doing what I was supposed to be doing.”

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248. “When people are content they are difficult to manoeuvre. We are perennially discontent and offered placebos as remedies.”

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249. “If we all feel that we are alone, how alone are we?”

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250. “I used to believe in the system that I was born into: aspire, acquire, consume, get famous and glamorous, get high and mighty, get paid and laid.”

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