Robert Englund Quotes & Sayings

“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?”

“The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.”

“Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.”

“Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.”

“I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.”

“The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.”

“I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.”