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Robert Englund

(1947) Actor United States

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Robert Englund compares making a film to a crap shoot, where success is unpredictable. He mentions that horror roles can bring a big salary and even let him open movies abroad. He also describes surfing as a private, solo sport that he enjoys after working with snakes on set.

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Robert Englund is an actor from the United States, best known for Hollywood monster.

Quick Facts About Robert Englund

Born: June 6, 1947
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Hollywood monster
Known for: A Nightmare on Elm Street

About Robert Englund

Robert Barton Englund is an American actor and director best known for playing Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street movies. He has earned a Saturn Award, a Fangoria Chainsaw Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Awards & Honors

Time Machine Award

Quotes by Robert Englund

I'm a pretty psycho-obsessed shrink.

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I loved horror since I was a kid.

Horror

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Fear has been good to yours truly.

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I love new questions.

Love

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Any film you make is a crap shoot.

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

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I think I am a little too old now.

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I love fire. Fire is hypnotic.

Fire

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I always liked the skinny punk girls; I even loved them before punk.

Girl

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I'm at that stage in my career, especially now where I go where I am wanted.

Career

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There's more violence, Freddy is less funny and more violent...

Funny

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Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.

Culture

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If a girl comes into your arms, that's pretty romantic.

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I liked girls with pale skin because I am a California boy, tanned and blonde hair.

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Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.

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We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

Challenge

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Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.

Actors

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You're going to have to surrender a little bit to the contrivance of how Freddy and Jason get together.

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I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.

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A lot of guys like to go to the beach and bring a crowd, but not me. I like to be alone…

Beach

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There'll always be movies that are meant for the big screen, and they should be seen that way.

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It's a new world, but I figure you know a good way to keep young is to keep new challenges going.

Challenges

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American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent.

American horror story

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I know sometimes when I go to a convention or a film festival occasionally people bring me really valuable and really rare…

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I do love old horror, everytime I watch Rosemary's Baby the performances just get richer and richer and more multi-layered, and I…

Baby

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There's a depth to the nightmare, to the symbolism you can exploit, on an intellectual level, on a sexual level, on a…

Depth

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I have some friends that just stick to the same criteria over and over again not realizing there are lots of other…

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I did a lot of stuff before I became known for horror. I did a lot of small films in the '70s,…

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I have friends that are much better actors than I am that had to quit the business because they couldn't survive the…

Actors

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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…

Acting

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There's plenty of great stuff out there. I think it's just what we do is we all spend our allowance on the…

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We were having a sleepover when I was eight or nine, and we all got to stay up late and watch the…

Child

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“The last week of shooting, we did a scene in which I drag Amanda Wyss, the sexy, blond actress who played Tina,…

Kiss of death

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As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the…

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I always felt there had to be a great 'Jason nightmare' or the movie wouldn't work and how Jason and Freddy would…

Movie

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I always serve the writer first because I'm English trained, even though I'm American. I don't protect my own ass, I protect…

Writing

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“For my number-one favorite kill, I almost went with Johnny Depp being eaten alive and then regurgitated by his own bed in…

Equal opportunity

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“But something about the interesting plot bothered me: one of the major rules that Wes had established on A Nightmare on Elm…

Bright future

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I have very liberal parents. People forget that Fidel Castro was on the cover of 'Time' magazine, and the one that I…

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“As with the first Nightmare, we shot a couple of interesting scenes that didn’t make it into the final cut, most notably…

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