Russell Brand Quotes

Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.

To meet someone who you look up to like they are gods and goddesses, sometimes that person can disappoint you a bit.

It's a sad day when you have to be disappointed in a fan.

In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

If they were real, then maybe the world was big enough to have magic in it. And if there was magic — even bad magic, and Zach knew it was more likely that there was bad magic than any good kind — then maybe not everyone had to have a story like his father's, a story like the kind all the adults he knew told, one about giving up and growing bitter.

The saddest moment in a child's life is not when he learns that Santa Claus isn't real, it's when he learns that Vince Russo is.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

I hated the tests the raised hopes and failed expectations.

Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.

The worst case scenario is you really like someone's work, then you meet them and they're a self-involved, entitled douchebag.

The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Colin Farrel was recently asked about prostitutes and he said, It's like ordering a pizza. Really? What restaurant is he going to? All I ever get is a pizza... I guess in some ways it is - when it's delivered, it's never quite as hot as you hoped it would be.

This isn't a Christmas special! This is my life. In the real world, miracles and goodness just don't happen.

I've been an idiot to think that real life could have a happy ending

One has no right to form ideals of people, and then, because they don't justify them, become bitter.

Well we're waiting here in Allentown For the Pennsylvania we never found For the promises our teachers gave If we worked hard If we behaved So the graduations hang on the wall But they never really helped us at all No they never taught us what was real

We’d met at a carefree time, a moment full of promise, in its place now were the harsh lessons of the real world.

I looked for great men, but all I found were the apes of their ideals.

Every real object must cease to be what it seemed, and none could ever be what the whole soul desired.