Richard O'Brien Quotes

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

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

Don't just dream it. Be it!

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

Life's too short to be working with divas.

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

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

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 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.

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

And crawling on the planet's face,
some insects called the human race.
Lost in time, and lost in space.
And meaning.

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

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.

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

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