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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

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

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

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

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

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

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I am constantly seeing new horror that I like.

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

I think I am a little too old now.

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

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

I love fire. Fire is hypnotic.

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

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

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.

Yeah, snakes. They're my fear factor.

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

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

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

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 a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

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.

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

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

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

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

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