Richard O'Brien Quotes

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

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• I don't know if I've ever played a character who's close to me. There have been some elements of myself in different roles. Sometimes, I show one side of myself and then completely conceal the other.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Character
  • Me
  • Roles

• I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Father
  • Friend

• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Good
  • Language
  • Cutting

• You don't create jobs by passing bills, you create jobs by cutting taxes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • You
  • Cutting
  • Create

• The print magazine and print journalism industry is obviously in a great deal of trouble, and one of the things that happened when this business started to give way to the Internet and to broadcast television is that a lot of organizations started cutting specifically investigative journalism and they also started cutting fact-checkers.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Great
  • Business
  • Cutting

• If it wasn't for John Peel, there would be no Joy Division and no New Order. He was one of the few people to give bands that played alternative music a chance to get heard, and he continued to be a champion of cutting-edge music throughout his life.

  

  Bernard Sumner Joy Division
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It starred my Saint Bernard Barney, and it was a killer thriller with oodles of special effects that were cutting edge for the time.

  

  Les Claypool
  • Time
  • Cutting

• This administration is cutting the programs that our Nation and its citizens need most, while dissolving the safety nets created to protect the elderly and less fortunate in this wealthy Nation.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • Cutting
  • Safety

• If you're trashing your own country, ruining the soils, contaminating the waters and the air, cutting down trees, overfishing the lakes, rivers and oceans, you're not much of a patriot.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Country
  • Air
  • Cutting

• I want to improve TSA's counterterrorism focus through intelligence and cutting edge technology, support the TSA workforce, and strengthen the agency's relationships with stakeholders and the traveling public. All of these priorities are interconnected and are vital to TSA's mission - and I would say, all of our collective mission.

  

  John Pistole
  • Support
  • Technology
  • Focus

• I came to the destruction of volume by the use of the plane. This I accomplished by means of lines cutting the planes. But still, the plane remained too intact. So I came to making only lines and brought the colour within the lines. Now the only problem was to destroy these lines also through mutual oppositions.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Cutting

• A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The casting, the choice of location, the costumes and make-up, the actors' reading of a line or emphasis of a word, the choice of lens and the pace of the cutting - these are all part of the translation.

  

  David Nicholls
  • Up
  • Reading
  • Cutting

• Think about how your jeans would look if you washed and dried them every single day. That's like our hair, and you can't change your hair as often as your pants, so cutting down on washing cuts down on long-term damage.

  

  Jonathan Van Ness
  • Long
  • Single
  • Hair

• The genius is the man who has genuine and deep human relations with others, who does not cut himself off in the search for originality, but who realizes the value of artistic tradition.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Men
  • Value
  • Deep

• Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Work
  • Live
  • Song

• [Mitt] Romney looks the part and is well known around the world and has a lot of experience.

  

  Andrea Mitchell
  • World
  • Experience
  • Looks

• I don't play well enough to be allowed to throw my clubs.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Play
  • Enough
  • Wells

• The way that you have cut the film, you can take the audience out of the action if it becomes evident that there is a stunt double doing it rather than the actor. I'd rather stay with the character and the story point behind the fight, rather than cutting to a wide angle of the fight.

  

  Wade Eastwood
  • Character
  • Action
  • Fighting

• I'll tell you what's funny about it [NSA wiretapping]: They tell us we got to cut the budget; we have to have budget rollback. We're going to cut the budget on air traffic control, and every once in a while your plane is going to be delayed for three hours. But we do have the money laying around to hire people to read your emails and listen to your phone conversations. That just doesn't make any friggin' sense at all.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • People
  • Cutting
  • Hours

• I love to see the old heath's withered brakeMingle its crimpled leaves with furze and ling,While the old heron from the lonely lakeStarts slow and flaps its melancholy wing

  

  John Clare
  • Lonely

• Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're innocent; flowers, they're innocent. Divert your attention to all these things.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Children
  • Love
  • Wisdom

• I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism.

  

  Albert Speer
  • Racism
  • Victims
  • Tanks

• Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.

  

  Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
  • Brother
  • Inspired
  • Stills

• 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
  • Cutting
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  • Roles