Best 73 quotes of Robert Englund on MyQuotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Hollywood is tripping over its own feet.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I love fire. Fire is hypnotic.

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 the idea that all genres can have subsets.

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.