Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Richard O'Brien

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Richard Timothy Smith, known professionally as Richard O'Brien, is a British-New Zealand writer, actor, musician, and television presenter. He wrote the musical stage show The Rocky Horror Show in 1973, which has remained in continuous production. He also co-wrote the screenplay of the film adaptation, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), also appearing in the film as Riff Raff. The film became an international success and has received a large cult following. O'Brien co-wrote the musical Shock Treatment (1981) and appeared in the film as Dr. Cosmo McKinley.

English - Actor | Born: March 25, 1942

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Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

Richard O'Brien

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

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

Richard O'Brien

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

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

Richard O'Brien

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

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

Richard O'Brien

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

Richard O'Brien

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

Richard O'Brien

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

Richard O'Brien

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

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

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

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

Richard O'Brien

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

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

Richard O'Brien

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

Richard O'Brien

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

Richard O'Brien

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

Richard O'Brien

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

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

Life's too short to be working with divas.

Richard O'Brien

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

Richard O'Brien

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

Richard O'Brien

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

Richard O'Brien

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

Richard O'Brien

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

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

Richard O'Brien

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

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

Richard O'Brien

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

Richard O'Brien

Don't just dream it. Be it!

Richard O'Brien

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

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

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

Richard O'Brien

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

Top 36 Quotes & Sayings by Richard O'Brien

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