Russell Brand
When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.Collection: Famous
I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.Collection: Famous
Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.Collection: Strength
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.
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.
As a performer, I'm very, very confident in what I do.
Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.
I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.
I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice reputation to have.
Everyone has their own mantra.
I'll not be changing, but America will.
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.
I've always had this impulse to be destructive.
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.
Sometimes, as a comedian, a line will come to you, that is so beautiful, so perfect, that you think: I did not create this line. This line belongs to all of us. Surely this is a line of God.
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.
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.
People don't throw your bags out of windows because of lies; they throw them out because of the truth.
I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'
I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.
As a person... I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.
I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.
The bad-boy label is just an assumption.
I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.
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.
As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusionCollection: Spiritual
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.Collection: Pain
No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'Collection: World
Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.Collection: Reality
How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Children
I'm not better than you; I'm just different than you in a way that's better.Collection: Different
The revolution that's required isn't a revolution of radical ideas, but the implementation of ideas we already have.Collection: Ideas
People who say the system works work for the system.Collection: People
Eventually, I think you find a spiritual and emotional connection with someone, and I think it unifies you with everyone else. I think if you love one person, it makes you love everyone.Collection: Spiritual
If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.Collection: People
When I was poor and I complained about inequality they said I was bitter. Now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm starting to think they just don't want to talk about inequality.Collection: Hypocrite
The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.Collection: World
I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.Collection: Funny Love
You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.Collection: Ideas
The world isn't made of atoms, it's made of stories.Collection: Stories
Love is the one thing we're capable of perceiving that transcends time and space.Collection: Love Is
My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.Collection: People
Where those two energies [male and female energies] intersect, all creativity is possible. We already have divine creative energy within us. And what is the most powerful of these energies? The energy that patriarchy and misogyny constantly try to repress. The divine female sexual energy. The creative energy of the female. That is why I worship divine sexual female energy.Collection: Powerful
Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.Collection: Self
What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of oneness. I'm quite an erratic thinker, quite an adrenalized person, but through meditation, I found this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. My tendency towards selfishness, I felt that kind of exposed as a superficial and pointless perspective to have. I felt very relaxed, a sense of oneness. I felt love.Collection: Beautiful
I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!Collection: Sex
There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face.Collection: Differences
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.Collection: Drama