Robert Englund Quotes

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

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

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  Tags in Stage, Town, Direct

• But it’s mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.

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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.

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  Tags in Better, Friends

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

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  Tags in American, Though, Writer

• I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.

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  Tags in Film, Comedy, Italian

• I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.

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  Topics in Technology

  Tags in Used, Works

• I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.

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

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• I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

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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.

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  Tags in Back, Try

• Kids today don’t watch a black and white movie.

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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.

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  Tags in Girl, Fight, Put

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

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  Tags in Actors, Stories, English

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

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  Tags in Keep, Fresh, Taught

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

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  Tags in Play, Forgetting, Stage

• The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.

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  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Audience, Modern

• You’re going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.

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  Tags in Little, Together, Bit

• The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.

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  Tags in Reality, Last

Robert Englund (19)

Birth:	6th June, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Director, Singer

About

Robert Barton Englund is an American actor, voice-actor, singer, and director, best known for playing the fictional serial killer Freddy Krueger, in the Nightmare on Elm Street film series. He received a Saturn Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors in 1987 and A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master in 1988. Englund is a classically trained actor.

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