439 Quotes by Russell Brand

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

I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.

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.

When I was growing up, I thought I'd be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.

As a person I'm a little more doubtful, introspective and analytical.

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.

Honesty has always been an integral part of my operation, really.

I do have a regard for the musicality of language that came from BBC sitcoms like 'Fawlty Towers.'