Top 150 Quotes & Sayings by Robert Englund - Page 3

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.

I love fire. Fire is hypnotic.

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

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

When you're on a sound stage and you're shooting a fire stunt, this weird thing happens where the fire eats up all the oxygen and everybody gets a little dingy.

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.

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

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

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

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

I am lucky. I am fortunate. I found the love of my life.

I'm doing a lot of boogie-boarding now. It's actually better exercise, I get a lot more waves, and if I'm out in big surf, I can duck under the waves much easier.

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.

By the time I'm out of makeup, I'm ready to act.

I love the fans, and I respect the fans, and I want them to go out and support movies.

I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.

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.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But there is always a time and a place for the subsets within genres.

I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.

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

I am constantly seeing new horror that I like.

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.

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

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.

There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a primal, violent level, and I think all of those things together are just great. They're the spice and ingredients in the menu of the horror movie, and I think that's why we'll be around for a long time.

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.

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

Once you have a history together, it's just another love for life. Everything is easier. It is just easier to live.

I think I am a little too old now.

Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.