Richard O'Brien

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

“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 absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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