Richard OBrien 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.

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

Life's too short to be working with divas.

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.

Don't just dream it. Be it!

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

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.

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

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

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

There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I have done every job in the Theatre apart from wardrobe. I was out of work more times than I was in it.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

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

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.

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.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

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