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Robert Englund
American
Actor
About the author
Jeff Bridges taught me a lot about how to keep a scene fresh.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Surrender
The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Horror
The last time we had Freddy in reality was part two and Freddy sort of went out on his own.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Time
#Reality
Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Play
Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Kids
#Today
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,
American
Actor
#Kids
#Fight
#Killing
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,
American
Actor
#Now
#Movies
#Television
#Actor
#Horror
#Guest
I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Want
#Feet
#Pressure
#Enthusiasm
I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Today
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Friends
#Business
#Actors
I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Film
#Comedy
#Venice
I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#American
#First
#Writer
#English
I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Character
#Inspiration
Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Movies
And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Destiny
Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#English
#Actors
#Horror
I would like to see the technology used to explore more period horror genre works, for example, E. A. Poe.
Robert Englund,
American
Actor
#Technology
#Example
#Horror