quotes by Russell Brand

"I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!"
— Russell Brand

"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."
— Russell Brand (My Booky Wook)

"Have you been out in society recently? 'Cause it's SHIT."
— Russell Brand

""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 {My Booky Wook}"
— Russell Brand

"Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage."
— Russell Brand (My Booky Wook)

"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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— Russell Brand

"All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism"
— Russell Brand (My Booky Wook)

"I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable."
— Russell Brand (My Booky Wook)

"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 fuck, 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. "
— Russell Brand

"Life’s never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you’d want it to look."
— Russell Brand (My Booky Wook)

""For me happiness occurs arbitrarily: a moment of eye contact on a bus, where all at once you fall in love; or a frozen second in a park where it's enough that there are trees in the world.""
— Russell Brand

"Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies."
— Russell Brand (My Booky Wook)

""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" 25."
— Russell Brand

"There was [really] little difference between someone acting throwing french fries in your face and someone throwing french fries in your face."
— Russell Brand

"My dad's philosophy was (and I think still is) that life is a malevolent force, which seeks to destroy you, and you have to struggle with it. Only those who are hard enough will succeed. Most people get crushed, but if you fight, in the end life will go, "Fucking hell. This one's serious. Let him through.""
— Russell Brand

"The light. The light is so bright that all that remains is you and the darkness. You can feel the audience breathing. It's like holding a gun or standing on a precipice and knowing you must jump. It feels slow and fast. It's like dying and being born and fucking and crying. It's like falling in love and being utterly alone with God; you taste your own mouth and feel your own skin and I knew I was alive and I knew who I was and that that wasn't who I'd been up till then. I'd been so far away but I knew I was home.(Pg. 89)"
— Russell Brand

""I know that's the sort of thing people say and I really hate it when people say the sort of things people say. I always think, 'You don't mean that, you just think it sounds good'" 289."
— Russell Brand

"... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so much the lizard king, more a gecko duchess, I fitted in nicely with their idea of what a creative person should be."
— Russell Brand (My Booky Wook)

""Life's never a postcard of life, is it? It never feels like how you'd want it to look.""
— Russell Brand