Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brien
Richard O'Brienis an English actor, television presenter, writer and theatre performer. He was born in England, and is a dual citizen of New Zealand and the United Kingdom...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth25 March 1942
real play people
I've never wanted to play bank managers and real people particularly.
mask has-beens
I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.
careers driven
I'm not driven by money and I'm not driven by career.
fame driven
I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
thinking ideas knows
Even though we know freedom as an idea we're not really as free as we think we are.
congratulations mean important
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.
people
I'm one of those people who never really joined the grown-ups.
drama school theatre
I paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.
stuff groups mature
I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.
goodbye interest adore
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.
jobs theatre done
I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.
different sometimes individual
There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.
fool source
He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.
running race appreciate
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.