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" 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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" 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. "

Robert Englund

Saturday

American

Boy

" Kids today don't watch a black and white movie. "

" The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller. "

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

" 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

Girl

Late

" 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. "

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

Robert Englund

Taught

Keep

" I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers. "

Robert Englund

Today

Whistle

" 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. "

" The truth of it is when you get an audience to laugh and camp along with you, it's much easier to scare 'em again because they're using two sides of their emotions. It's much easier to set them up for a good cheap thrill scare again. "

" I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.' "

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

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

" Johnny Depp was the most polite young actor I've ever worked with. "

" 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. "

" The roughest make-up I ever wore was for 'Phantom of the Opera' because the phantom's face was all disfigured, and he's trying to pass in public so he can attend his beloved opera. That was make-up over make-up. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Robert Englund

Enthusiasm

Want

" Fear has been good to yours truly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at me with his crusty brushes, I grew more and more profane. That's how I started to find the voice of Freddy. "

" 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. "

Robert Englund

Fan

Sick

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