Robert Englund Quotes

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

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 always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.

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

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

I think I am a little too old now.

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

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.

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

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