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
defining editor hot life moments news people takes
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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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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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.
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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.
allowed came million offered original
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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Our reaction is one of bitter disappointment. British car industry jobs are being sacrificed on the altar of this country's flexible labor market.
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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.
hollow
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'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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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 first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.
thinking want suits
Yes, but I think the big thing for everyone is to wear what they want and what suits them.
play intellectual roles
To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.