Quotes from Robert Englund

I always wanted to play a monster, and I also wanted to work with Wes Craven.

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.

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

Horror does better when it's bubbling under. It's a niche. It doesn't like the limelight.

It's real simple - we all have nightmares, and the idea you can be in real jeopardy in them is a great gimmick. It's universal.

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas.

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.

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

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.

I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

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

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.

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

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.

Death by plane crash scares me. I travel a lot, and when you hit turbulence, and post 9/11, that's in the back of my mind a bit.

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