Robert Englund Quotes

• 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 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

• 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

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

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  Tags in Play, Forgetting, Stage

• 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

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

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  Tags in Today, Black, Kids

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

  Robert Englund

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  Tags in Keep, Fresh, Taught

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Girl, Fight, Put

• 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

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

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  Tags in Pressure, Feet

• 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 think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

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  Tags in Today, Whistle

• 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

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Better, Friends

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

  Robert Englund

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Film, Comedy, Italian

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

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  Tags in Character, Whatever

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

  Robert Englund

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  Tags in Stage, Town, Direct

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

  Robert Englund

  Topics in Movies

  Tags in Mostly

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destiny, Team, Child

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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