Richard O'Brien famous quotes

Running is not, as it so often seems, only about what you did in your last race or about how many miles you ran last week. It is, in a much more important way, about community, about appreciating all the miles run by other runners, too.
-- Richard O'Brien

#Running #Race #Appreciate

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

#Life #Too Short #Life's Too Short

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.
-- Richard O'Brien

#Congratulations #Mean #Important

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.
-- Richard O'Brien

#Fool #Source

Don't just dream it. Be it!
-- Richard O'Brien

#Dream #Inspiration #Middle School

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

#Mind #Shadow #Lurking

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

#Real #Play #People

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.
-- Richard O'Brien

#Halloween #Eye #Devil

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

#People #Age #Gauges

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

#Home #Cutting #Night

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

#Different #Sometimes #Individual

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

#Thinking #Ideas #Knows

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

#People

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

#Fantasy #Adore #Realms

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

#Goodbye #Farewell #Adore

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

#Thinking #Want #Suits

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

#Grateful #People #Lovely

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

#Groups #Stuff #Mature

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

#Jobs #Theatre #Done

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

#Night #Goes On #Next

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

#Kind #Fame #Empty

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

#Fame #Driven

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

#Careers #Driven

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

#Drama #School #Theatre

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

#Creative #Theatre #Different

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

#America #Australia #Shapes

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

#Mask #Has Beens

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

#Horse #Cowboy #Riding

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

#Hollywood #Bedtime #Very Good

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

#Play #Intellectual #Roles

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

#Together #Three #World