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Russell Brand Quotes

Total quotes: 16
“Being human is a ‘me too’ business. We are all in the mud together.”
— Russell Brand, Recovery
Tagged: The Human Condition, Before and after
“If you regard alcoholics and drug addicts not as bad people but as sick people then we can help them to get better.”
— Russell Brand, Russell Brand: my life without drugs
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Drugs, Alcohol
“I cannot help but love people who know the pain I feel.”
— Russell Brand, Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions
Tagged: Love, Pain, vulnerability, Stories, Community
“Porn is a clear example of how our culture is feeding the disease of addiction. The natural impulse to have sex becomes a compulsion to masturbate.  The attraction to connect is culturally translated by pornography into a numb and lonely staring strum at broken digital ghosts. The most physically creative thing we have, reduced to a dumb shuffle that'd embarrass a monkey.”
— Russell Brand, Recovery
Tagged: Connection, Loneliness, Porn, Sex, Addiction
“If I have just one sip of wine, by the end of the evening I'll be, like, rimming waiters for their tips, just to get me hands on a rock. You know what I mean?”
— Aldous Snow, Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Tagged: Alcoholism, Alcohol
“ Tune out his negative vibrations: they're toxic. Some folks just don't want to be happy.”
— Creek (voice), Trolls
Tagged: Negativity, Vibrations, Toxic
“I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
Tagged: Change, Value, beauty, Meaning
“My life is just a series of embarrassing incidents strung together by telling people about those embarrassing incidents.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Tagged: Life, embarrassing
“Drugs and alcohol are not my problem, reality is my problem, drugs and alcohol are my solution.”
— Russell Brand, Russell Brand: my life without drugs
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Alcohol, Drugs, Recovering Addict
“I couldn't possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Tagged: insults, Sex, Grammar
“We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless.”
— Russell Brand, My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs, and Stand-Up
Tagged: Relaxation, Life, Drugs
“I live in negotiation with a shadow side that has to be respected.”
— Russell Brand, Recovery
Tagged: Before and after, Addiction, Recovery
“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
Tagged: Sex, sexuality, Women
“I look to drugs and booze to fill up a hole in me.”
— Russell Brand, Russell Brand: my life without drugs
Tagged: Drug Addiction, Recovering Addict, Drugs, Alcohol
“I know believe addiction to be a calling. A blessing.”
— Russell Brand, Recovery
Tagged: Before and after, Addiction, Recovery
“Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more. Damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial.”
— Russell Brand, Articles of Faith
Tagged: Sadness, Pain, Spiritual
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