Quotes by Robert Englund - Page 3

Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting.
Robert Englund / Actor
Nightmare
Reacting
Movies Me Acting
Movies Me More
Behaving
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Festivals
People
Sometimes
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I do genre films because I like them or because I need the money. I make a star's salary when I do horror because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.
Robert Englund / Actor
Genre
Germany
Salary
Spain
Italy
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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 / Actor
Roles
Stars
Trying
Guest
Guest Star
Horror Movies
Mostly
Movie Actor
Occasionally
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Country
Couple
Python
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Goth
Sick
Freddy
Herself
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I was trained to serve the writer and director as an actor before I serve myself. Not to say that's gotten in my way, but that's a different way of working than most American actors work.
Robert Englund / Actor
Work Myself Way
Trained
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Sometimes jobs are jobs, and when you guest star on television, you're also working with a guest director. You're the new kid on the block, because everyone else is already in the ensemble.
Robert Englund / Actor
Jobs
Block
Ensemble
Television
Director
Star
Everyone Else
Guest
Guest Star
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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 / Actor
Actors
Auditions
People
Rejection
Good Business I Am
Business Good I Am
Quit
Rejections
Survive
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Baby
Rosemary
Watches
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Events
Stuff
Thinking
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Character
People
Stories
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My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s.
Robert Englund / Actor
Dad
Aircraft
California
Council
Democratic
Homemaker
Executive
Worked
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I did a lot of stuff before I became known for horror. I did a lot of small films in the '70s, in all kinds of styles. I worked with all kinds of people when I was just starting out: I was incredibly lucky.
Robert Englund / Actor
Styles
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The roughest make-up I ever wore was for 'Phantom of the Opera' because the phantom's face was all disfigured, and he's trying to pass in public so he can attend his beloved opera. That was make-up over make-up.
Robert Englund / Actor
Beloved
Opera
Attend
Phantom
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As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally working. I still feel that way, and the thing is, even within the horror genre, I now get to play all kinds of different roles.
Robert Englund / Actor
Choosy
Genre
Afford
Different Roles
Generally
Typed
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Girl
Cowboy
Party
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I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films.
Robert Englund / Actor
Affection
Homemade
Sundance
Alternative
Independent Films
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
May
People
Sticks
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I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at me with his crusty brushes, I grew more and more profane. That's how I started to find the voice of Freddy.
Robert Englund / Actor
Brushes
Makeup
Profane
Sat
Trial And Error
David
Barber
Chair
Error
Freddy
Hours And Hours
Miller
More And More
Shop
Poked
Trial
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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 / Actor
People
Scary
Scary Stories
Watches
Action Movies
Anyway
Horror Movies
Overseas
References
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Afternoon
Summer
Terrified
Ended
Grown
Seed
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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 / Actor
Careers
Fun
Gymnast
Plus
Tricks
Use
Big Part
Horribly
Phase
Pretty Good
So Much Fun
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The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again because they're using two sides of their emotions. It's much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again.
Robert Englund / Actor
Scare
Sides
Thrill
Camp
Cheap
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Kids
Dad
Father
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Cracks
Dark
Fall
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I actually am grateful for Freddy Krueger, because the big surprise to me - with that sort of double punch of science fiction TV series and then the 'Nightmare on Elm Street' phenomenon - was that I got an international celebrity out of it.
Robert Englund / Actor
Grateful
International
Nightmare
Phenomenon
Science Fiction
Series
Surprise
Tv Series
Big Surprise
Double
Freddy
Punch
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I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973.
Robert Englund / Actor
Finished
Hollywood
Good Myself Bad
Allowed
Bad Ones
Good Ones
Parts
Pat
Realized
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I'm a Hollywood kid, and I know that there are only so many stories. Only so many tales around the campfire that we have to tell. Then we have to regurgitate them. Our grandparents' movies were all remakes of silent films - we forget that, but it's true.
Robert Englund / Actor
Campfire
Silent
Tales
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Jamaica
Pirate
Sexy
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While I still do a lot of horror, it doesn't feel to me like I'm repeating myself. I like to stay interested. I'm kind of turning into one of those elder statesmen, like a Vincent Price or a Donald Pleasence. I like to think of myself alongside those guys.
Robert Englund / Actor
Statesmen
Myself Me Feel
Alongside
Turning
Donald
Elder
Repeating
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I used to drive up from theatre in Michigan to Stratford, Ontario to watch every show. I idolized the actors from Stratford. I was very influenced by them because they would come down and work at my theatre and get time on their American Equity union cards.
Robert Englund / Actor
Cards
Equity
Idolized
Michigan
Ontario
Influenced
Union
Stratford
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
War
Thinking
Vampire
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Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did 'Elm Street' - I'd probably be on a psychiatrist's couch saying: 'Freddy ruined me.' But I'd already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre.
Robert Englund / Actor
Judas
Non Stop
Psychiatrist
Ruined
Successful
Theatre
Movies Done Me
Played
Couch
Street
Freddy
Movies Me Done
Hugely
Production
Saying
Shakespeare
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Redneck
White
Years
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I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?
Robert Englund / Actor
Amount
Bottled Water
Bottles
Consumed
Drinking
Enormous
Percent
Plastic
Recycled
Scared
Today
Water
Wind
Years
Did
Bottled
Nearly
Tap
Filtered
Instead
Takes
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church - especially with event screenings.
Robert Englund / Actor
Independent Film
Sacredness
Action Film
Catch
Download
Event
Laptop
Maintain
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We were having a sleepover when I was eight or nine, and we all got to stay up late and watch the original 'Frankenstein.' It was uncensored, so as a child, I saw the scene where he throws the little girl into the lake, and that freaked me out. Though not as much as when he hangs the hunchback.
Robert Englund / Actor
Nine
Frankenstein
Freaked
Lake
Little Girl
Throws
Uncensored
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When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturday Evening Post.' In the middle of this family magazine on my parent's coffee table was an article about this family that was camping, and they were all mauled by a grizzly bear in their sleeping bags.
Robert Englund / Actor
Bags
Camping
Coffee
Evening
Middle
Parent
Saturday
Terrible
Boy
Article
Bear
Coffee Table
Magazine
Post
Sleeping
Table
Weekly
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
New York
Boston
Florida
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Dream
People
Scary
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I never played Freddy as real. In the true bible of Wes Craven's outline for the films, Freddy only manifests himself in dreams. And a lot goes into a dream, not the least of which is imagination. So Freddy is secondhand information. Freddy is an urban legend that's been handed down to these teenagers over the years.
Robert Englund / Actor
Bible
Urban
Legend
Freddy
Handed
Outline
Secondhand
Teenagers
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Old School
Technology
School
Thinking
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Long
Symbolism
Thinking
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When you see Robert Englund in a movie, you think he is the bad guy, but if I'm not the bad guy, and I'm supposed to just kind of fool the audience, it makes it a lot easier for whichever actor is the bad guy. So I find myself doing a lot of those, I think they're called red herring characters, faking out the audience.
Robert Englund / Actor
Movie
Audience
Easier
Fool
Guy
Herring
Red
Actor
Bad Guy
Faking
Just Kind
Robert
Supposed
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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.
Robert Englund / Actor
Adorable
Cusp
Hiatus
Nbc
Nightmare
Alien
Celebrity
Real Reason
Schedule
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I have very liberal parents. People forget that Fidel Castro was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, and the one that I remember the most - it's not necessarily my favorite - was when they dressed me as Castro when I was eight years old. I was in fatigues, camouflage hat, beard and cigar. I don't think I did that well with candy that year.
Robert Englund / Actor
Beard
Camouflage
Candy
Castro
Time Me Remember
Cover
Dressed
Hat
Liberal
Magazine
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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 / Actor
Medical
Fire
Makeup
Aided
Fred
Material
Prosthetic
Result
Source Material
Wore
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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 / Actor
Death
Dream
Fall
Interesting
Stress
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