Russell Brand Quotes

I've always found, give me a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers, and I do better with that than I do with torture.

I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.

This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?

I'd rather have a full bottle in front of me than a full frontal lobotomy.

I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, 'cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn't prepared for a 60 Minutes interview every time. Doing bumps I was able to get through the day, but then I would smoke weed to calm me down - it was the only way I could get through the day without people noticing I was doing it.

When you're an addict, you can go without feeling anything except drunk or stoned or hungry. Still, when you compare this to other feelings, to sadness, anger, fear, worry, despair, and depression, well, an addiction no longer looks so bad. It looks like a very viable option.

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

Taking drugs to overcome nerves is the thin edge of the wedge going in there.

Letting go of stress means that you can enjoy your life.

All the Hennessy and weed can't hide, the pain i feel inside, its like I'm living just to die.

I can't stand when people use drugs as an escape. It's like, everybody suffers. Deal with your issues, you'll feel so much better.

I'm 20 years old. I like to party as much as anyone my age. Going clubbing is my way of relaxing or releasing a lot of stress. I don't feel that I should have to justify that part of my life. I don't know that I'm necessarily an addict.

They couldn't do a drugs story on me because I'd already done one on myself.

I relax completely when I'm at rest. I don't think of numbers; I don't think of work.

If people can't deal with their problems, they numb themselves a little bit.

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.

There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.