Richard O-Brien

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  • The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.
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  • There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.
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  • A news editor takes the hot story of the day. People take the salient moments of ones life - Those defining moments - and Rocky`s got to be there.
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  • I`m very happy to sit in the genre of make believe and fantasy. It`s where I`m happiest. It appeals to the eternal adolescent in me.
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  • 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.
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  • When I was writing it, all I was doing was entertaining myself and writing a show that I, personally, would have liked to have gone and seen.
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  • Life`s too short to be working with divas.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.
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  • 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.
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  • I`m writing the songs bit by bit and when I have finished the songs, some will probably change and I`ll go back and start writing the scenes.
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  • 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.
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  • I`ve never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.
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  • Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.
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  • I am 58 and it`s difficult for people to gauge my age.
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  • So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn`t it? It`s an empty kind of thing.
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  • 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.
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  • I`m not driven by money and I`m not driven by career.
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  • Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
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  • When you do something like Rocky, which is undefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that. 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. And I have no problems with that at all. If it overshadows anything else, I can understand completely why and again it doesn`t worry me.
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  • 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.
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  • To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.
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  • Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.
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  • I`ve never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It`s never been part of my psyche.
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  • I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.
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  • There`s something about shadows because you make your own mind up about what`s lurking in them.
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  • I`ve been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky`s continual bounty.
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  • The only thing that really drives me is to try and sort myself out and find some kind of psychological and spiritual growth within me.
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  • Even though we know freedom as an idea we`re not really as free as we think we are.
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  • It is difficult to go on the next night after you receive a sandbagging.
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  • I`m one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.
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  • I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.
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  • I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.
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  • I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Son, with Kimi Wong, Linus (b. May 1, 1972).
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  • Emigrated with his parents to New Zealand, went to school in Tauranga on the North Island's east coast, and moved to Hamilton for a while for work when he left school, before returning to the UK.
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  • Wrote The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) in six months.
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  • Met his close friend, Patricia Quinn in 1972.
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  • On November 25, 2004, a life-size bronze statue of Richard O'Brien in his Riff Raff space suit was unveiled in Hamilton, New Zealand, where O'Brien grew up after moving from England. Commissioned jointly by a local theatre group and the Hamilton City Council, the statue stands on the site of the old Embassy Cinema, where O'Brien once watched science-fiction double features.
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  • Took the last name O'Brien after his grandmother.
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  • Still makes up songs on the spur of the moment, to entertain his friends.
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  • Son, with Jane Moss, Joshua (b. 1983). Daughter, with Jane Moss, Amelia (b. 1989).
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  • When writing The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), he based the character Frank-N-Furter on Alice Cooper. In his original handwritten notes (published in the 1979 play book The Rocky Horror Scrapbook), he described Frank-N-Furter as an "Alice Cooper type Frankenstein." (The "Dr." was added for the film.)
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