Words matter. These are the best Richard O’Brien Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
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.
I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.
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.
Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.
I’ve been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky’s continual bounty.
There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.
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 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.
I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.
Even though we know freedom as an idea we’re not really as free as we think we are.
There’s something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what’s lurking in them.
Life’s too short to be working with divas.
To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.
I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.
I’ve never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn’t it? It’s an empty kind of thing.
Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
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.
