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
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
The technologies of convenience are making our sphere of exploration and experience smaller. – Robert Englund
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
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
I always serve the writer first because I’m English trained, even though I’m American. – Robert Englund
I wouldn’t want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm. – Robert Englund
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
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
I’ve done ‘Two Gentlemen of Verona,’ I’ve understudied Iago in ‘Othello.’ I’ve done Mercutio in ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ – Robert Englund
I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe. – Robert Englund
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
You’re going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together. – Robert Englund
