Quotes By Robert Englund

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

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

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

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

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.