Richard O'Brien Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Richard O'Brien:

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


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I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.
~Richard O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#ac447378

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
~Richard O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#c86d1f30

I am 58 and it's difficult for people to gauge my age.
~Richard O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#97c33c15

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#8c6672b4

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#c1a99098

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#2e06e1c0

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#4cbc676c

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#84db1f1d

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#494584b3

I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.
~Richard O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#75d123dd

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#850227c8

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.
~Richard O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#6cfa459c

To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.
~Richard O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#963f6266

I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.
~Richard O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#c24e62c2

It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.
~Richard O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#6e69967b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#2cd50247

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#667c08ae

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#0684c207

Life's too short to be working with divas.
~Richard O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#838dfca4

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#cf32226f

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.
~Richard O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#5337c969

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#c9e7b713

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#f8753156

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#b1780ccd

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#25d6c9fc

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#f1a6c5c9

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#bc654853

I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.
~Richard O'Brien


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#23fe5303

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/richard-obrien-quotes/#197b08ec

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