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Richard O'Brien

Richard O'Brien (born Richard Smith; 25 March 1942) is a British-New Zealand actor, television presenter, musician, writer, voice artist and theatre performer. After a long and successful career based in the United Kingdom, he gained dual citizenship with New Zealand in 2011, where he resided in Tauranga.

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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.

Creative, Different, Film, Given, Recording, Theatre

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

Big, Everyone, Suits, Thinking, Want, Yes

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

Drama, Paid, School, Theatre

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.

Cutting, Down, Home, Night, Scissors

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.

Australia, Britain And America, Civilisation, Culture, Sending, Television

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.

Appreciate, Appreciating, Race, Ran, Running

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

Different, Finding, Individual, Sometimes, Stop

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

Free, Idea, Ideas, Know, Knows, Thinking

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.

Congratulations, Important, Mean, Success, Things, Truthfully

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.

Gentle, Grateful, Lovely, People, Planet

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

Goes On, Next, Night, Receive, Sandbagging

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.

Adore, Farewell, Goodbye, Part, Rocky

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.

Change, Devil, Eye, Halloween, Surprise, Time

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

Managers, People, Play, Real

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

Apart, Done, Job, Jobs, Theatre, Work

Don't just dream it. Be it!

Dream, Inspiration, Middle School

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

Carry, Cowboy, Horse, Movie, Riding

He who quotes himself has a fool for a source.

Fool, Quotes, Source

Life's too short to be working with divas.

Divas, Life, Life'S Too Short, Short, Too Short, Working

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

Empty, Fame, Ground, Hollow, Kind, Rest

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