Richard O'Brien Quotes

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

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Career

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

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Age

  Tags in People, Difficult

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rocky, Like, Something, Difficult

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Receive, Difficult

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, Mature

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Own, Shadow, Something, Mind

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Getting, Trouble, Looked

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exciting, Wonderful, Running, Really, Longer

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Million

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

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actor, Carry, Just

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rocky, Absolutely, Really, Something, Interest

• 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.

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Money

  Tags in World, Reason, Thing

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ground, Empty, Fame, Thing

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

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think, Really, Freedom

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

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Want, Think, Everyone, Wear

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Always, Critics, Audience, Finding

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

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Joined, People, Really

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

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Particularly, Managers, Wanted, Real

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

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Age, Work

  Tags in Cushioned, Continual, Bounty, Rocky, Against, Having, Been

• 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.

  Richard O'Brien

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Creative, Different, Television, Like

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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