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.

- Richard O'Brien

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.

- Richard O'Brien

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.

- Richard O'Brien

Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

Life's too short to be working with divas.

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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.

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien

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

- Richard O'Brien