Quotes from Richard O'Brien

I would have loved to have been in The Stand. I would also loved to have been in The Mask.

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

I've been cushioned against having to work, with Rocky's continual bounty.

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

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've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.

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

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.

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

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.

And crawling on the planet's face, some insects called the human race. Lost in time, and lost in space. And meaning.

Stay sane inside insanity.

It's not easy having a good time! Even smiling makes my face ache!

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

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.

Life's too short to be working with divas.

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 paid my dues at drama school and worked backstage in every Theatre in London.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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