Quotes from Robert Englund

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 always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

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

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.

I'm a big fan of Brian De Palma's 'Sisters,' and I also love 'Let The Right One In.'

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

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

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

I love new questions.

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

I love fire. Fire is hypnotic.

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

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.

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.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

Fear has been good to yours truly.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.