Russell Brand Quotes

I found popularity through self-destruction, and that can be quite addictive.

A guy who's actually self destructive is quite fun to play.

There's something very romantic about self-destruction and sabotaging your life, and taking a hammer to it.

Why, instead of bringing order - planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child - does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything?

I'm incredibly self-destructive.

I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

For me, the most interesting people are ones who often work against their best interests. Bad choices. They go in directions where you go, 'No no no nooo!' You push away someone who is trying to love you, you hurt someone who's trying to get your trust, or you love someone you shouldn't.

I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

I was so full of joy, the happiest kid. Things changed. I don't want to talk about it. I needed attention. I was pathologically shy. I'd climb the highest tree or try to ski off the highest mountain. I'd get into fights. I wanted contact. I'd hit somebody, just for that.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder.

Limit your inputs to only those that support a certain kind of self-destructive behavior, and you can be cheered with enthusiasm as you drive yourself off a cliff.

I think everyone can relate to the idea of making a bad choice - and knowing it's a bad choice - but doing it anyway.

People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things.

I was always drawn to the self-destructive kind of way. I thought there was something beautiful about it; I don't know why.

I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.

When one kicks over a tea table and smashes everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it on the bricks, don't you think?

I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.