Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
Russell BrandSee all these buildings, Russell? All these buildings were once a drawing on a piece of paper, and before that they were an idea in someoneโs head. Any idea that you have, you can make manifest.
Russell BrandTumbling into a dark, Lewis Carroll labyrinth of filth, pursuing a white rabbit of smut!
Russell BrandWhen I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force.
Russell BrandThen, of course, through the umbilical link we all tumble backwards down the spiralling DNA staircase to one common ancestor in Africa, and before that some bunch of curious monkeys. Down and down we go unto the sea, unto the dust, the single cellular dust. What impulse drove one cell to become two? What yearning pulled the fish on to the land? What caused apes to walk upright? Some invisible magnetic pull. Is there a difference between attraction and intention? Where is evolution taking us?
Russell Brand