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" I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe. "
Robert Englund
Horror
Technology
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" 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'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose? "
Robert Englund
Wind
People
You
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Death
Travel
Mind
" Johnny Depp was the most polite young actor I've ever worked with. "
Robert Englund
Young
Polite
Most
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Feel
Way
Horror
" 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
" I always wanted to play a monster, and I also wanted to work with Wes Craven. "
Robert Englund
Always
Monster
Wanted
" 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. "
Robert Englund
You
Fun
Dance
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Lucky
Starting
Horror
" As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that fire can cause on people, because they were the source material for some of the prosthetic makeup that I wore. That aided and abetted this fear of death by fire. Which is sort of what happened to Fred Krueger. "
Robert Englund
Makeup
Fire
Fear
" I was trained to serve the writer and director as an actor before I serve myself. Not to say that's gotten in my way, but that's a different way of working than most American actors work. "
Robert Englund
Actor
Work
Way
" I didn't make good money on 'Nightmare' until part three. I eventually got some nice merchandising checks. "
Robert Englund
Nice
Got
Good
" I'm a big fan of Brian De Palma's 'Sisters,' and I also love 'Let The Right One In.' "
Robert Englund
Love
Brian
Big Fan
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Salary
Need
Star
" The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller. "
Robert Englund
Exploration
Convenience
Experience
" Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. "
Robert Englund
Halloween
Starts
Like
" I went to see a children's matinee at the movie theatre one summer, but at some point they had changed to the grown up movie in the late afternoon, and I ended up seeing this movie called 'The Bad Seed.' It just terrified me. "
Robert Englund
Children
Me
Seed
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Emotions
Good
Truth
" My dad worked as an executive at Lockheed Aircraft and worked on the U-2 and things like that. My mother was a homemaker, and she was vice-president of the Democratic Council of California back in the '50s. "
Robert Englund
Back
Like
She
" The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag. "
Robert Englund
Modern
Wise
Audience
" 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
" Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage. "
Robert Englund
Direct
Town
Gosh
" Had I not done Shakespeare, Pinter, Moliere and things such as 'Godspell' - I played Judas in a hugely successful production before I did 'Elm Street' - I'd probably be on a psychiatrist's couch saying: 'Freddy ruined me.' But I'd already done 13 movies and years of non-stop theatre. "
Robert Englund
Saying
Theatre
Successful
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Find
Barber
Makeup
" Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play. "
Robert Englund
Play
Stage
Forgetting
" And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child. "
Robert Englund
Team
Double
Destiny
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Horror
Myself
Think
" 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 always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American. "
Robert Englund
American
Always
Serve