Quotes from Richard O'Brien

The first movie I appeared in was Carry On Cowboy, though not as an actor. I was just riding horses.

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

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

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

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.

Well, when you do something like Rocky which is indefinable somehow, it always becomes difficult to lose that.

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

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.

I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.