Richard O'Brien Quotes

• Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.

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  Tags in Want, Think, Everyone, Wear

• Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Hollywood, Writer, Good

• With the film around for 25 years and the show being around even longer – still running and continuing to fill house all around the word – it’s really an exciting and wonderful thing to be part of that.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Exciting, Wonderful, Running, Really, Longer

• Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.

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  Tags in Rocky, Like, Something, Difficult

• Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I’ve never looked back.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Getting, Trouble, Looked

• We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television.

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in America, Influence

  Tags in Culture, Television, Great

• To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Wonderful, Change, Play

• There’s something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what’s lurking in them.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Own, Shadow, Something, Mind

• There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Always, Critics, Audience, Finding

• The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Actor, Carry, Just

• The fact that someone came forward and offered $1.25 million to make a movie was astonishing. We were also allowed to keep many of the original stage cast.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Million

• So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn’t it? It’s an empty kind of thing.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Ground, Empty, Fame, Thing

• Not that I have any interest in saying goodbye to Rocky. I absolutely adore being involved and a part of something that is really a phenomenon.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Rocky, Absolutely, Really, Something, Interest

• Life’s too short to be working with divas.

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Working

• It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.

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  Tags in Receive, Difficult

• I’ve never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Particularly, Managers, Wanted, Real

• I’ve never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It’s never been part of my psyche.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Part, Anything, Like

• I’m surrounded by it. I have so many lovely people around me who are supportive, gentle, kind and considerate. I’m so grateful for every day that I’m on the planet and that continues to be so.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Planet, Grateful, Gentle, People

• I’m one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.

  Richard O'Brien

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  Tags in Joined, People, Really

• I’m not driven by money and I’m not driven by career.

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Career

Richard O'Brien (30)

Birth:	25th March, 1942
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Broadcaster, Writer

About

Richard Timothy Smith, better known under his stage name Richard O'Brien, is an English writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer. He is perhaps best known for writing the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show and for his role in presenting the popular TV show The Crystal Maze.

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