Richard O'Brien Quotes
I've never been driven by fame or money or anything like that. It's never been part of my psyche.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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I always wanted it, the fame. When it come, I didn't want to let it go.
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Fame creeps up on you.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
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I actually used to smile a lot in pictures. I think I only stopped smiling when I got into fashion. Fashion stole my smile!
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Fame is easy to acquire; impact is much more difficult.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.
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It's such a paradox. You come from this place where you want fame; you don't want to be bourgeois, but you want to be successful. You want to be accepted, but you also want to be going against the grain. You want to be on the outside, but you want to be on the inside.
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I think a lot of young people don't realize the price of fame is a lot higher than they imagine.
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With fame, I'm able to create more. With every success, you have more freedom to create.
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I have a hard time doing anything someone else tells me to do! I've always been driven to follow my own path and not be pushed down another lane because some executive thought I could be more commercially successful or whatever.
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I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
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It's so easy to get caught up in your own experiences. They can seem so important. But there are billions and billions of other experiences going on.
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The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.
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Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse.
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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.
