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Richard O'Brien

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


— Richard O'Brien


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


— Richard O'Brien


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


— Richard O'Brien


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


— Richard O'Brien


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


— Richard O'Brien


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


— Richard O'Brien


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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.


— Richard O'Brien


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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


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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


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


— Richard O'Brien


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About Richard O'Brien






Did you know about Richard O'Brien?

In 1995 he performed a select number of shows as the devilish charmer Mephistopheles Smith in a musical/comedy show he wrote entitled Disgracefully Yours which was later given permission to be adapted into a musical performed first by Eubank Productions for the Kansas City Fringe Fest in 2006 and more recently by Janus Theatre Company for the Edinburgh Fringe 2007 simply entitled Mephistopheles Smith. He is also a patron of the Five Stars Scanner Appeal which benefits the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital. Zee (1976) Disaster (1978) The Stripper (1982– based on the Carter Brown novel and produced in Australia) and Top People (1984).

He is perhaps best known for writing the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show and for his role in presenting the popular TV show The Crystal Maze. Richard Timothy Smith (born 25 March 1942) better known under his stage name Richard O'Brien is an English writer actor television presenter and theatre performer. In addition to writing The Rocky Horror Show O'Brien also co-wrote the screenplay of the 1975 film adaptation The Rocky Horror Picture Show and appeared in the film himself as the character Riff Raff.

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