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
adolescent appeals believe eternal genre happy sit
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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Our reaction is one of bitter disappointment. British car industry jobs are being sacrificed on the altar of this country's flexible labor market.
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.
hollow
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.
drives growth sort spiritual within
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.
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.
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.
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.
grateful people lovely
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.
dream
Don't just dream it. Be it!
halloween eye devil
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.
britain-and-america australia television
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.
together world three
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.
play intellectual roles
To play a role where you get to reveal intellectual change is wonderful.