Richard O'Brien Quotes

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

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.

Life's too short to be working with divas.

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.

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

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 absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

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

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

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.

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

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

Don't just dream it. Be it!

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

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

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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