439 Quotes by Russell Brand

You have to forgive everyone for everything. You can’t cling on to any blame that you may be using to make sense of the story of your life.

If you’re chugging through life in a job you kind of dislike, a relationship that you are detached from, eating to cope, staring at Facebook, smoking and fruitlessly fantasizing, you can sit glumly on that conveyor belt of unconscious discontent until it deposits you in your grave.

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That’s why it’s got the word con in it.

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

I learned that I had no need to feel ashamed, that I could make amends for the wrongs I had done, that I could address the fear I had always fled, that I could re-evaluate my feelings of worthlessness.

We are animals. We are free animals with a divine spark, we’re not in a farm or a zoo or a theme park, we’re free. We’ve forgotten that we’re free...

No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, ‘What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!’

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

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.