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" But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies. "
Robert Englund
Movies
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" I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. "
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" The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own. "
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Last Time
Last
Own
" Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh. "
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Keep
Me
" Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters. "
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Pieces
Stories
" 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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Sick
Like
" And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child. "
Robert Englund
Team
Double
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" 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. "
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You
Fun
Dance
" I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act. "
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Actor
Act
Supposed
" 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. "
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Death
Travel
Mind
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Me
Girl
Late
" I just finished my 62nd or my 63rd movie here, and you know, I do good ones, I do bad ones, I do big parts, I do small parts, I do cameos - but I've allowed myself a pat on the back, because I realized that I've been working in Hollywood now since 1973. "
Robert Englund
Know
Bad
Good
" I think there's a time and place to watch an independent film, or catch up on a French action film on your laptop, or Netflix it, or download it, or watch it on-demand. But I think we also have to maintain the sacredness of the movie theatre as church - especially with event screenings. "
Robert Englund
Church
Think
Action
" Johnny Depp was the most polite young actor I've ever worked with. "
Robert Englund
Young
Polite
Most
" I have very liberal parents. People forget that Fidel Castro was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, and the one that I remember the most - it's not necessarily my favorite - was when they dressed me as Castro when I was eight years old. I was in fatigues, camouflage hat, beard and cigar. I don't think I did that well with candy that year. "
Robert Englund
Time
Hat
Me
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Bible
Information
Dreams
" As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable. "
Robert Englund
Need
Scary
Everything
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Horror
Doing
Back
" Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. "
Robert Englund
Halloween
Starts
Like
" I always wanted to play a monster, and I also wanted to work with Wes Craven. "
Robert Englund
Always
Monster
Wanted
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Action
Good
People
" I used to drive up from theatre in Michigan to Stratford, Ontario to watch every show. I idolized the actors from Stratford. I was very influenced by them because they would come down and work at my theatre and get time on their American Equity union cards. "
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Drive
Theatre
Work
" Any film you make is a crap shoot. "
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Film
Make
You
" We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge. "
Robert Englund
Challenge
New
Younger
" Some actors get by with behaving, not acting. You've got to sell the effect. I act more in the 'Nightmare' movies because it's not like me. I'm acting, not reacting. "
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" When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturday Evening Post.' In the middle of this family magazine on my parent's coffee table was an article about this family that was camping, and they were all mauled by a grizzly bear in their sleeping bags. "
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Saturday
American
Boy
" Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage. "
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Direct
Town
Gosh
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Surprise
Science
Me
" I was on the cusp - or thought I was on the cusp - of celebrity, the result of starring as an adorable curly-haired alien in the miniseries 'V' on NBC. 'V' was a hit, and then got green-lit as a series. During the hiatus, the only job I auditioned for that fit my schedule was 'Nightmare on Elm Street.' That's the real reason I said yes. "
Robert Englund
Thought
Result
Yes
" I know there's a certain love and affection for the homemade on the Internet, and I'm all for that, too, and I appreciate it in alternative music, and I appreciate it in B-movies and in Sundance, independent films. "
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Music
Appreciate
Internet
" As a jobbing actor, you can't afford to be choosy; if you're typed, you're generally working. I still feel that way, and the thing is, even within the horror genre, I now get to play all kinds of different roles. "
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Feel
Way
Horror