Richard O'Brien Quotes
There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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Women are sacred.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
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Activists and geeks, standing together, are demonstrating powers beyond the reach of government control.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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You can't impose a legacy.
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I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.
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You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
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My idea of artistry has always been 'try everything until you find out what works.'
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It's a quality of my life that I wouldn't change for the world, having grown up with such a humble background.
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I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it.
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In this business, you have a hierarchy of stars. Russell Crowe, Tom Hanks - you name 'em, they can play any part they want. Guys like me who are somewhere down in the middle of the pack, that's a different story. I can do things in the theater that I can't do anyplace else.
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Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that's where they pretty much parted company. Father... anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.
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What we eat will tell everything when it comes to our bodies, our skin, our hair, how we feel, your endurance for things.
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There is always an audience for different individuals, but critics sometimes stop the audience finding the show and the show finding the audience.
