Daily Inspiration Quote by Richard O'Brien

There’s a sly wink hiding inside the earnestness of “I absolutely adore working in the realms of fantasy.” Coming from Richard O’Brien, it reads less like a generic love letter to escapism and more like a manifesto from someone who made a career out of turning the “unreal” into a stage for permission: to be weird, to be theatrical, to be too much. O’Brien isn’t praising fantasy as a break from life; he’s praising it as a way to rewrite the rules of life.

The phrasing matters. “Absolutely adore” is emphatic to the point of camp, a tonal choice that signals allegiance to pleasure over prestige. It’s not “I respect” or “I’m interested in.” It’s devotion. Then “working” grounds that devotion in craft. Fantasy here isn’t childish daydreaming; it’s labor, construction, rehearsal, design. The line quietly reframes imagination as a professional toolset, not a guilty indulgence.

“Realms” does extra work, too. It suggests worlds with laws, hierarchies, and identities you can step into, not just stories you consume. That resonates with O’Brien’s cultural lane: performance as world-building, and world-building as a safehouse for people who don’t fit the everyday script. The subtext is about agency. In fantasy, you can choose the costume, the body, the desire, the ending.

Contextually, for an actor known for cult, boundary-pushing work, the statement doubles as a defense of the marginal. Fantasy isn’t an escape hatch; it’s where outcasts become protagonists and seriousness gets smuggled in under sequins.