Top 150 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Englund - Page 2

I didn't make good money on 'Nightmare' until part three. I eventually got some nice merchandising checks.

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

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.

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

I was on the cusp - or thought I was on the cusp - of celebrity, the result of starring as an adorable curly-haired alien in the miniseries 'V' on NBC. 'V' was a hit, and then got green-lit as a series. During the hiatus, the only job I auditioned for that fit my schedule was 'Nightmare on Elm Street.' That's the real reason I said yes.

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

Let's kill somebody to Sinatra! Or to early Elvis!

I love the idea of comedy in horror. I think this should be allowed.

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.

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.

American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent.

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

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

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.

In a great horror movie, you've gotta have some character development and you've gotta set some of your people up and you've gotta have a little back story going. You've gotta take that time for exposition.

I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.

I don't choose roles. I go where I'm wanted.

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

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

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

I'm kind of like a combination of a red herring and a fake-out.

Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.

Hollywood is tripping over its own feet.

I have friends in New York that won't leave New York, and they're really talented people, but they'd rather take an acting class in New York than do a play in Florida or Boston. That's just weird to me, but they get into that I've-got-to-be-in-the-center-of-the-universe mentality. I'm not that way.

Sometimes we spend our money on something we think is gonna be great, and the titles shall remain nameless, but they're just a little disappointing.

I think that what's happened is that there's been a rediscovery of some good old-school films and a realization that there's always a place for them. We don't have to outgrow them with the new technology and we can do them with it and we can do them without it. We shouldn't always have the demands made on us to do it.

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

Because I am known in the horror genre now, I try and do at least one horror movie a year for my fans, my fans have been so good to me.

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.

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.

If you don't invest in the characters, you don't care if they get killed. It's more fun if you know them.

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

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.

We used to take girls to scary movies all the time, I don't know about you, but that was the place we would go for dates.

I'm of the opinion that you go where you're wanted.

I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

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

I hate these actresses-pretending-to-be-lesbians movies. To me, that's just as prurient as a bad violent movie.

Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and it's a real good time.

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.

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

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

Yeah, snakes. They're my fear factor.

Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.

I know there really is someone out there for everyone.

You have to get your hands dirty. You've got to really deliver the goods, and when you do, you can get something really special.

That's the thing with independent cinema: They all get good reviews, and they don't make money. Some of them are good. Some are great. And some are terrible.

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

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

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

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

There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that we're told is going to be the big event, and sometimes the big event is disappointing.

I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over, we're happy now, a little bit of Cold War paranoia ya know, and then mix it up a little bit. I just think there are so many avenues that you could do that.

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 loved horror since I was a kid.

We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.

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

It's hard for young people to understand when you tell them how great relationships are.

I love new questions.