Richard O'Brien Quotations

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.

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.

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

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.

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.

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording.

Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

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

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

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.

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

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

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.

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

Life's too short to be working with divas.

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

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

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.

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

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

The only thing that really drives me is to try and sort myself out and find some kind of psychological and spiritual growth within me.

Our reaction is one of bitter disappointment. British car industry jobs are being sacrificed on the altar of this country's flexible labor market.

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.

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.

When I was writing it, all I was doing was entertaining myself and writing a show that I, personally, would have liked to have gone and seen.

A news editor takes the hot story of the day. People take the salient moments of ones life - Those defining moments - and Rocky's got to be there.

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

I'm very happy to sit in the genre of make believe and fantasy. It's where I'm happiest. It appeals to the eternal adolescent in me.

I'm writing the songs bit by bit and when I have finished the songs, some will probably change and I'll go back and start writing the scenes.

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

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

Don't just dream it. Be it!

He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise. He had a pickup truck, and the devil's eyes. He stared at me and I felt a change. Time meant nothing, never would again.

That means more to me, truthfully, than commercial success. To be a loved human being is much more important to me then any of those other things.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.