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" Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh. "
Robert Englund
Taught
Keep
Me
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" 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
" 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
" 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 last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own. "
Robert Englund
Last Time
Last
Own
" 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 didn't make good money on 'Nightmare' until part three. I eventually got some nice merchandising checks. "
Robert Englund
Nice
Got
Good
" 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
" Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. "
Robert Englund
Halloween
Starts
Like
" 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 always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character. "
Robert Englund
Inspiration
Get
Character
" Horror does better when it's bubbling under. It's a niche. It doesn't like the limelight. "
Robert Englund
Better
Like
Niche
" 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
" The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller. "
Robert Englund
Exploration
Convenience
Experience
" 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
" And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child. "
Robert Englund
Team
Double
Destiny
" I'd rather be Vincent Price than a red-neck character actor. You can't predict what will happen. "
Robert Englund
You
Character
Predict
" 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
" 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
" 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 think superheroes today are like whistle blowers. "
Robert Englund
Today
Whistle
Like
" 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'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
" As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable. "
Robert Englund
Need
Scary
Everything
" The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag. "
Robert Englund
Modern
Wise
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. "
Robert Englund
Emotions
Good
Truth
" 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. "
Robert Englund
Red
Doing
Think
" Kids today don't watch a black and white movie. "
Robert Englund
Black
White
Today
" 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
" 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. "
Robert Englund
More
Me
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" I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival. "
Robert Englund
Film
Comedy
Venice