Robert Englund Quotes

I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.

Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.

I love fire. I just think it's hypnotic and great, but I've got to tell you - on a sound stage, that stuff scares me.

I love new questions.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

When you're on a sound stage and you're shooting a fire stunt, this weird thing happens where the fire eats up all the oxygen and everybody gets a little dingy.

I've worked with pythons and such in a couple of movies, and I had to wrangle around, but I was okay. Still, if I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by them.

Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

I love fire. Fire is hypnotic.

People forget that we are character actors and we can do other things.

A lot of guys like to go to the beach and bring a crowd, but not me. I like to be alone and out there with a couple of pelicans.

Everybody has a nightmare, and everybody apparently has falling dreams, and everybody has the drowning dream, and everybody has certain kinds of sexual manifestation dreams, as well as our stress dreams; I didn't study for the algebra test, I didn't study for my driving test, you know, all those dreams. I still have those dreams, and it's just such an interesting thing that our mind can turn against us, our own mind, you know we all have.

People actually were worried that I was going to get stereotyped as a monster after Freddy, but my God, I got stereotyped as white trash for years, the best friend for years, the redneck for years, the nerd for years and let me tell you...it's better to be a monster than to be a nerd.

With all the new technology, DVD's, Blu-Ray's, NetFlex, everyone has access to older movies. There is a new generation now of Freddy fans. Fathers that saw the movie originally, these guys are dads now, and they let their kids watch them.

Horror has been very good to me in my career. Doing horror films is for the fans and helps keep that part of my career alive.

I'm at that stage in my career, especially now where I go where I am wanted.

I loved horror since I was a kid.

We used to take girls to scary movies all the time, I don't know about you, but that was the place we would go for dates.

By the time I'm out of makeup, I'm ready to act.

Yeah, snakes. They're my fear factor.

The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

Sometimes we spend our money on something we think is gonna be great, and the titles shall remain nameless, but they're just a little disappointing.

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.

I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

I do a lot of stuff in my career, but I like to keep a hand in horror.

Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.

Whats great about Freddy in this is when he gets to comment and manipulate the back stories and the fears of the characters - especially with Jason.

I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.

That's the thing with independent cinema: They all get good reviews, and they don't make money. Some of them are good. Some are great. And some are terrible.

Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.

When you see a guy flying into the air on fire, that's not me, obviously. I do all the water tricks, though.

I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.

I know there really is someone out there for everyone.

Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

I have some friends that just stick to the same criteria over and over again not realizing there are lots of other kinds of people and that may be what you like. People get in that mindset and put their blinders on.

I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.

I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over, we're happy now, a little bit of Cold War paranoia ya know, and then mix it up a little bit. I just think there are so many avenues that you could do that.

I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.

Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.

If I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by snakes.

I always liked the skinny punk girls; I even loved them before punk.

Hollywood is tripping over its own feet.

I think I am a little too old now.

I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.