Top 45 Robert Englund Quotes

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

You’re going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.

‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ really lends itself to using new technologies. CGI would be a great way to exploit and embrace the dream sequences.

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.

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

I was trained to serve the writer and director as an actor before I serve myself. Not to say that’s gotten in my way, but that’s a different way of working than most American actors work.

I sat in the barber’s chair in David Miller’s makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at me with his crusty brushes, I grew more and more profane. That’s how I started to find the voice of Freddy.

I’m a Hollywood kid, and I know that there are only so many stories. Only so many tales around the campfire that we have to tell. Then we have to regurgitate them. Our grandparents’ movies were all remakes of silent films – we forget that, but it’s true.

If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

Sometimes jobs are jobs, and when you guest star on television, you’re also working with a guest director. You’re the new kid on the block, because everyone else is already in the ensemble.

I went to see a children’s matinee at the movie theatre one summer, but at some point they had changed to the grown up movie in the late afternoon, and I ended up seeing this movie called ‘The Bad Seed.’ It just terrified me.

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

There’ll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way.

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

I always wanted to play a monster, and I also wanted to work with Wes Craven.

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

The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it’s much easier to scare ’em again because they’re using two sides of their emotions. It’s much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again.

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

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.

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You’ve got to sell the effect. I act more in the ‘Nightmare’ movies because it’s not like me. I’m acting, not reacting.

I know there’s a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I’m all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films.

I’m a big fan of Brian De Palma’s ‘Sisters,’ and I also love ‘Let The Right One In.’

Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that’s in the back of my mind a bit.

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.

I’d rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can’t predict what will happen.

I did a lot of stuff before I became known for horror. I did a lot of small films in the ’70s, in all kinds of styles. I worked with all kinds of people when I was just starting out: I was incredibly lucky.

Horror does better when it’s bubbling under. It’s a niche. It doesn’t like the limelight.

I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me – with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ phenomenon – was that I got an international celebrity out of it.

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

I think there’s a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church – especially with event screenings.

As a jobbing actor, you can’t afford to be choosy; if you’re typed, you’re generally working. I still feel that way, and the thing is, even within the horror genre, I now get to play all kinds of different roles.

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

Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as ‘Godspell’ – I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did ‘Elm Street’ – I’d probably be on a psychiatrist’s couch saying: ‘Freddy ruined me.’ But I’d already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre.

Johnny Depp was the most polite young actor I’ve ever worked with.

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.

We all have to change with the times… it keeps you younger; it’s a new challenge.

I’ve done ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona,’ I’ve understudied Iago in ‘Othello.’ I’ve done Mercutio in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’

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

I’m scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?

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

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

I never played Freddy as real. In the true bible of Wes Craven’s outline for the films, Freddy only manifests himself in dreams. And a lot goes into a dream, not the least of which is imagination. So Freddy is secondhand information. Freddy is an urban legend that’s been handed down to these teenagers over the years.

My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the ’50s.

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.