Wealth & Money Quote by Richard O'Brien

O'Brien's line lands like a sideways confession: the "real people" he isn't drawn to are the ones we reflexively call respectable. Bank managers stand in for a whole category of socially sanctioned adulthood - pressed shirts, tidy motives, problems that can be solved with paperwork. By lumping them together with "real people particularly", he tweaks the premise that realism is the gold standard of acting. It's a cheeky demotion of naturalism, as if the everyday isn't truer, just more domesticated.

The phrasing matters. "Particularly" softens the refusal into something droll, almost apologetic, which is exactly how the subversion sneaks through. He's not attacking the working world; he's admitting boredom with its narrow emotional palette. Coming from O'Brien - synonymous with The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a cult monument to glam, kink, and theatrical excess - it's also a mission statement. He didn't build his career on disappearing into the common man. He built it on heightened types, masks, and characters who announce their artifice and dare you to enjoy it.

There's a cultural context here, too: postwar British performance prized gritty authenticity in waves, from kitchen-sink drama onward. O'Brien's sensibility cuts against that grain. The intent isn't escapism as denial; it's escapism as critique. By refusing the bank manager, he refuses the worldview the bank manager represents: stability as virtue, restraint as maturity, normality as "real."