Robert Englund Quotes

I'm basically a movie actor now, and my big roles are mostly horror movies - unless I'm doing a guest star or something - and occasionally I try to get back into television.

In a great horror movie, you've gotta have some character development and you've gotta set some of your people up and you've gotta have a little back story going. You've gotta take that time for exposition.

I am lucky. I am fortunate. I found the love of my life.

I'm not surfing every day, so I'm not in that good of a shape, and when I paddle, I might get caught in the impact zone and get my world rocked pretty good.

I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

It's hard for young people to understand when you tell them how great relationships are.

Let's kill somebody to Sinatra! Or to early Elvis!

The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film.

American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

I kind of forgot about the inner child in me that loved the old horror movies.

There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that we're told is going to be the big event, and sometimes the big event is disappointing.

Because I am known in the horror genre now, I try and do at least one horror movie a year for my fans, my fans have been so good to me.

I love the fans, and I respect the fans, and I want them to go out and support movies.

I'm doing a lot of boogie-boarding now. It's actually better exercise, I get a lot more waves, and if I'm out in big surf, I can duck under the waves much easier.

I actually sing horribly, but I used to dance pretty good. I was a gymnast, and you can usually use those gymnastic tricks with dance. Plus, they're so much fun to do. That wasn't really a big part of my career. It was just a phase.

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream. Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

I'm of the opinion that you go where you're wanted.

Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and it's a real good time.

I don't choose roles. I go where I'm wanted.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

I'm kind of like a combination of a red herring and a fake-out.

I'd like to see a slasher movie set in the depression.

Why couldn't there be even a western slasher, or why couldn't there be a serial killer in a kind of pirate buccaneer Caribbean, just someone that's just doing terrible, terrible things in the ports, the sexy ports of Jamaica during the Pirate Renaissance.

Horror movies travel pretty well anyway. They're like action movies: People overseas can watch them and enjoy them, and they're not so culturally specific in terms of their references, and they can follow a good scary story.

There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a primal, violent level, and I think all of those things together are just great. They're the spice and ingredients in the menu of the horror movie, and I think that's why we'll be around for a long time.

I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

I did lots of Shakespeare and classics, and I just kind of became that person. I was a bit of a snob.

I think that what's happened is that there's been a rediscovery of some good old-school films and a realization that there's always a place for them. We don't have to outgrow them with the new technology and we can do them with it and we can do them without it. We shouldn't always have the demands made on us to do it.

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.

I liked girls with pale skin because I am a California boy, tanned and blonde hair.

I know sometimes when I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring me really valuable and really rare memorabilia that I have never seen before.

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

I don't rush out the first day to see every horror movie, but I do keep up on them, because I want to talk intelligently with the fans about them.

When you're an actor and you can set your arm on fire, you feel kind of magical.

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

You have to get your hands dirty. You've got to really deliver the goods, and when you do, you can get something really special.

Once you have a history together, it's just another love for life. Everything is easier. It is just easier to live.

There's a lot of dark horror, and a lot of sci-fi fantasy that's great, but what gets hyped a lot the big stuff. The most expensive stuff gets hyped a lot, and I love it, don't get me wrong, but there's things that fall through the cracks.

Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

I do love old horror, everytime I watch Rosemary's Baby the performances just get richer and richer and more multi-layered, and I see images that are just so politically outrageous. I love it all.

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

I am constantly seeing new horror that I like.

All my old surfing injuries have kind of come back to haunt me.

I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.