Russell Edward Brand (born 4 June 1975) is an English comedian, actor, radio host, author, and activist.
All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.
God is in the mountains. Impassive, immovable, jagged giants, separating the celestial from the terrestrial with eternal diagonal certainty. As if silently monitoring the beating heart of the creator from the universe's perfect birth. Stood in the thin air and the awe, one inhales God, involuntarily acknowledging that we are but fragments of a whole, a higher thing. The mountains remind me of my place, as a servant to truth and wonder. Yes, God is in the mountains. Perhaps the pulpit too and even in the piety of an atheist's sigh. I don't know; but I feel him in the mountains.
A Halloween-haired, Sachsgate-enacting, estuary-whining, glitter-lacquered, priapic berk How dare I, from my velvet chaise longue, in my Hollywood home like Kubla Khan, drag my limbs from my harem to moan about the system? A system that has posited me on a lilo made of thighs in an ocean filled with honey and foie gras'd my Essex arse with undue praise and money.
The bad-boy label is just an assumption.
Drugs and alcohol are not my problem — reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution.
I didn't take a job on Fox News because I'm interested in progress. I'm interested in shouting and pointing and simplifying things!
Amy Winehouse - her surname's beginning to sound like a description of her liver.
The greatest poverty one can have is to be poor in one's heart and for falling in love, he is truly happy. He discovers purpose.
If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.
If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for a solution. They aren't looking within.
When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.
I've been wanting to tell people my theory about what goes on after time. It's beyond our consciousness. We get glimpses of it between the infrared and the ultraviolet - the narrow narrow corridor of light that we are able to perceive.
What was alien was being ordinary, being humdrum, being trapped into appeasing. . . having to crush and stifle my opinions, not being allowed to be brilliant, tricking myself into mediocrity.
How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.
It was crushingly disappointing as a fan of The Simpsons to discover that it's just you in a room speaking into a microphone. I thought I was going to become friends with Homer Simpson, but unfortunately none of them are real.
One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these ideas. Yoga and meditation, for me, is a way of, in this secular world, accessing very very beautiful principles that would perhaps make us happier, at a time when people feel disillusioned with the economy, concerned about the ecology, worried with politicians, and don't trust what they're being told on television.
My mum brought me up on her own. All we really had was each other.
I've always been a 'your parents have got to come up to the school' type of person. Even now, when I do something wrong - if I say something inappropriate on a live tv show, for example - I half expect to have to deliver a note to Barbara Brand: 'Please come up to Channel 4 head office, Russell's done something despicable.