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" 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
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" You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together. "
Robert Englund
You
Together
Surrender
" 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
" 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
" 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
Like
" The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag. "
Robert Englund
Modern
Wise
Audience
" I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. "
Robert Englund
Enthusiasm
Want
Like
" Horror does better when it's bubbling under. It's a niche. It doesn't like the limelight. "
Robert Englund
Better
Like
Niche
" Sometimes jobs are jobs, and when you guest star on television, you're also working with a guest director. You're the new kid on the block, because everyone else is already in the ensemble. "
Robert Englund
Kid
You
Television
" I always wanted to play a monster, and I also wanted to work with Wes Craven. "
Robert Englund
Always
Monster
Wanted
" 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
" 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
" I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.' "
Robert Englund
Two
Romeo And Juliet
Gentlemen
" Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. "
Robert Englund
Halloween
Starts
Like
" And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child. "
Robert Englund
Team
Double
Destiny
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Opera
Trying
Because
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" There'll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way. "
Robert Englund
Screen
Always
Big
" 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 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 a Hollywood kid, and I know that there are only so many stories. Only so many tales around the campfire that we have to tell. Then we have to regurgitate them. Our grandparents' movies were all remakes of silent films - we forget that, but it's true. "
Robert Englund
Grandparents
Know
True
" 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
Good
Business
Friends
" The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller. "
Robert Englund
Exploration
Convenience
Experience
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Drive
Theatre
Work
" 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
" Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play. "
Robert Englund
Play
Stage
Forgetting
" 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