Robert Englund quotes

Robert Englund is an American actor, director, and voice artist, widely recognized for his role as Freddy Krueger in the "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film series. The character he portrayed became an icon of the horror genre and pop culture. He has also appeared in numerous other films, TV shows, and stage productions throughout his career. Here are 23 of his quotes:

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

Robert Englund

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

Robert Englund

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

Robert Englund

As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that fire can cause on people, because they were the source material for some of the prosthetic makeup that I wore. That aided and abetted this fear of death by fire. Which is sort of what happened to Fred Krueger.

Robert Englund

What makes the Nightmares on Elm Street universal and forever in their attraction, I think, is simply the dream. The landscape of the mind, the subconscious, the nightmare. 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.

Robert Englund

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.

Robert Englund

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

Robert Englund

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.

Robert Englund

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

Robert Englund

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

Robert Englund

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

Robert Englund

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

Robert Englund

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

Robert Englund

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

Robert Englund

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

Robert Englund

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.

Robert Englund

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

Robert Englund

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.

Robert Englund

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

Robert Englund

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

Robert Englund