Russell Brand Quotes

There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

No one in the group was really growing up besides me, which is pretty weird 'cause there was no one in that group more self-destructive than I was.

It's easy to praise God in the good times, but what about when the storms of your flesh are a-brewin'? Not so easy then!

The winter of 1991 found me stunned and shivering in the aftermath of an imploded love affair. Being 26, I flung myself actorishly on London and, without any intimations of my own ludicrousness, spent two years showing God what I thought of Him by letting myself go.

Shame--what happened when my mother, the dragon, huffed and puffed and blew my self down.

Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, okay?

I suddenly realized. The zebra. It is not something outside of us. The zebra is something inside of us. Our fears. Our own self-destructive nature. The zebra is the worst part of us when we are face-to-face with our worst times. The demon is us!

I have won important things for myself, but I'm going to destroy them, because I tell myself they have lost their meaning. I know that is not true. I know they are important, and that if I destroy them, I'll be destroying myself, as well.

Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

Sometimes I would see them not as mementos of the blissful hours but as the tangible precious debris of the storm raging in my soul.

Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.

I'm more interested in the psychic intricacies that they build up and try to run away from, and how they self-construct. A lot of my work is about self-construction. Here, it's those folks who are deeply wounded and bewildered. They're not just victims of trauma; they've been shaken so forcefully that they don't quite know how or where to stand.

If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

I'd begun to think that he'd given up on me in the weeks that had passed. Or that he no longer cared about me. Hated me even. And the idea of losing him forever, my best friend, the only person I'd ever trusted with my secrets, was so painful I couldn't stand it.

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.

Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.

When the beginnings of self destruction enter the heart, it seems no bigger than a grain of sand.

I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!