439 Quotes by Russell Brand

In spite of the anguish my addiction to drugs and alcohol has caused me, I wouldn’t relinquish its lessons.

The happiest moments in our life aren’t “Oh I got a new hat or a wonderful silvery object, some glistening bauble.” But it’s when you connect with another human being. If you can find the $18 in your pocket, you are purchasing dreams with that money.

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.

When you get Richard Dawkins yapping menopausally at some poor hamstrung old archbishop, while we dismantle our environment due to the materialistic, pessimistic principles that the atheistic tyranny of the day is tacitly sponsoring, it is time to look for a new story.

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

If you’re a drug addict, often you’re stealing – I’ve gotten done for shoplifting a few times.

I’ve learned that it is important to be beautiful to people. That all that matters is that you are lovely to the people around you and the people that you meet. It doesn’t matter if you’re a show off or a little bit vain, as long as you’re good to your mum, and that you’re kind, and that you’re lovely. And that everything is transient and superficial and to not get attached to material things because you’re going to lose it all. And the only thing that is constant is love.

I’ve come off heroin twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The physical withdrawal doesn’t last that long, but then it’s just all psychological. I think it’s worse than cigarettes.

Amy Winehouse – her surname’s beginning to sound like a description of her liver.