Latest Robert Englund Quotes from Interviews

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• Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream. 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

  Dream, People, Scary

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I love the fans, and I respect the fans, and I want them to go out and support movies.

  Robert Englund

  Support

  Source: www.avclub.com

• There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a primal, violent level, and I think all of those things together are just great. They're the spice and ingredients in the menu of the horror movie, and I think that's why we'll be around for a long time.

  Robert Englund

  Thinking, Symbolism, Long

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• Everybody has a nightmare, and everybody apparently has falling dreams, and everybody has the drowning dream, and everybody has certain kinds of sexual manifestation dreams, as well as our stress dreams; I didn't study for the algebra test, I didn't study for my driving test, you know, all those dreams. I still have those dreams, and it's just such an interesting thing that our mind can turn against us, our own mind, you know we all have.

  Robert Englund

  Dream, Stress, Fall

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• Let's kill somebody to Sinatra! Or to early Elvis!

  Robert Englund

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• Why couldn't there be even a western slasher, or why couldn't there be a serial killer in a kind of pirate buccaneer Caribbean, just someone that's just doing terrible, terrible things in the ports, the sexy ports of Jamaica during the Pirate Renaissance.

  Robert Englund

  Sexy, Jamaica, Pirate

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• I'd like to see a slasher movie set in the depression.

  Robert Englund

  Movie Sets

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• Sometimes we spend our money on something we think is gonna be great, and the titles shall remain nameless, but they're just a little disappointing.

  Robert Englund

  Thinking, Titles, Littles

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the thing that we're told is going to be the big event, and sometimes the big event is disappointing.

  Robert Englund

  Thinking, Events, Stuff

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• There's a lot of dark horror, and a lot of sci-fi fantasy that's great, but what gets hyped a lot the big stuff. The most expensive stuff gets hyped a lot, and I love it, don't get me wrong, but there's things that fall through the cracks.

  Robert Englund

  Fall, Dark, Cracks

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• Hollywood is tripping over its own feet.

  Robert Englund

  Feet, Hollywood, Tripping

  Source: houseofgeekery.com

• The cowboy movies is not our go-to programmer anymore, here's a horror film.

  Robert Englund

  Cowboy, Horror, Film

  Source: bloody-disgusting.com

• I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.

  Robert Englund

  Careers, Theatre, Actors

  Source: houseofgeekery.com

• I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

  Robert Englund

  Stars, Actors, May

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I have friends in New York that won't leave New York, and they're really talented people, but they'd rather take an acting class in New York than do a play in Florida or Boston. That's just weird to me, but they get into that I've-got-to-be-in-the-center-of-the-universe mentality. I'm not that way.

  Robert Englund

  New York, Florida, Boston

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm an actor. Actors are supposed to act.

  Robert Englund

  Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.

  Robert Englund

  Children, Years, Careers

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.

  Robert Englund

  People, Actors, Selling

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm of the opinion that you go where you're wanted.

  Robert Englund

  Opinion, Wanted

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I don't choose roles. I go where I'm wanted.

  Robert Englund

  Roles, Wanted

• Doing a movie in Tel Aviv or London or South Africa or Mexico. It's this great second act to my career, and it's a real good time.

  Robert Englund

  Real, Careers, Mexico

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Stars, Spain, Salary

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Arguably, the Venice Film Festival is the second best film festival in the world, after Cannes.

  Robert Englund

  Venice, World, Festivals

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I do genre films because I like them, or because I need the money.

  Robert Englund

  Needs, Film, Genre

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm doing a lot of boogie-boarding now. It's actually better exercise, I get a lot more waves, and if I'm out in big surf, I can duck under the waves much easier.

  Robert Englund

  Exercise, Ducks, Surf

  Source: www.avclub.com