Russell Brand Quotes Page 2

“Surfing should be called 'foam-choking' or 'sea stabbing'.”

“The only meaningful interpretation of any religious teaching is to honor the divine within ourselves and love the divine in one another.”

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

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

“There is really little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.”

“What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing... having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.”

“When I was poor and complained about inequality they said I was bitter; now that I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.”

“When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.”

“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 papier-mâché version of myself to send out in the world, while I sat controlling it remotely from some smug suburban barracks.”

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

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

“Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship ? not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn't f*ck, which is usually what people mean by platonic; which I bet would really piss Plato off, that for all his thinking and chatting his name has become an adjective for describing sexless trysts.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.”

“Of all the consumer products, chewing gum is perhaps the most ridiculous: it literally has no nourishment – you just chew it to give yourself something to do with your stupid idiot Western mouth.

Half the world is starving, and the other’s going, ‘I don’t actually need any nutrition, but it would be good to masticate, just to keep my mind off things.”

“Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.”

“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 materialises. 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.”

“See all these buildings? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someone’s head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.”

“The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.”

“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.”

“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.”

“What I've learnt - to my cost - on several occasions in my life, is that people will put up with all manner of bad behaviour so long as you're giving them what they want. They'll laugh and get into it and enjoy the anecdotes and the craziness and the mayhem as long as you're going your job well, but the minute you're not, you're f*cked. They'll wipe their hands of you without a second glance.”

“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.”

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