Robert englund quotes

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

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

Yeah, snakes. They're my fear factor.

Hollywood is tripping over its own feet.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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 have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the auditions or the rejections, or people just didn't realize how good they were.

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

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

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.

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.

I have friends in New York that won't leave New York, and they're really talented people, but they'd rather take an acting class in New York than do a play in Florida or Boston. That's just weird to me, but they get into that I've-got-to-be-in-the-center-of-the-universe mentality. I'm not that way.

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.

When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and we saw 'The Bad Seed' instead. Horrifying. For years I was frightened of girls with pigtails.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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 know there really is someone out there for everyone.

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

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

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

I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.

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.

Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.

I'm getting older now, and though I still surf well, it's hard for me to paddle in big surf.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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'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.

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

If a girl comes into your arms, that's pretty romantic.

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

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.

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

I think I am a little too old now.

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

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.

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.

I am constantly seeing new horror that I like.

And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.

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

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

I love new questions.

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

I love fire. Fire is hypnotic.

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

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

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

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

I loved horror since I was a kid.

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