Robert Englund Quotes
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I know actors that were on great television shows that got cancelled and they have never done anything that good since.
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I do a lot of stuff in my career, but I like to keep a hand in horror.
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Many great horror stories are period pieces and English actors have a facility for historic characters.
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I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.
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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.
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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 memorabilia that I have never seen before.
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Gosh, I'd like to direct Our Town on stage.
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I'd like to see a really good kind of closeted 1950s vampire movies. The war is over, the Korean war is over, we're happy now, a little bit of Cold War paranoia ya know, and then mix it up a little bit. I just think there are so many avenues that you could do that.
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I actually sing horribly, but I used to dance pretty good. I was a gymnast, and you can usually use those gymnastic tricks with dance. Plus, they're so much fun to do. That wasn't really a big part of my career. It was just a phase.
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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.
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I make a star's salary when I do horror, because I can still open a movie in Italy or Spain or Germany.
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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.
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I was quite a snob when I was a theatre actor earlier in my career.
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We have to open our minds and be ready for the changes.
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I always get inspiration from whatever characters say about my character.
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American Horror Story on cable now, it is terrific. There has to be room to re-invent.
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Let's kill somebody to Sinatra! Or to early Elvis!
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We used to take girls to scary movies all the time, I don't know about you, but that was the place we would go for dates.
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All my old surfing injuries have kind of come back to haunt me.
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The modern horror audience is wise to our tricks this lets it in on the gag.
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I'm getting older now, and though I still surf well, it's hard for me to paddle in big surf.
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By the time I'm out of makeup, I'm ready to act.
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I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.
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I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.
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I'm kind of like a combination of a red herring and a fake-out.
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I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.
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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.
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When you're on a sound stage and you're shooting a fire stunt, this weird thing happens where the fire eats up all the oxygen and everybody gets a little dingy.
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Now pole dancing is part of popular culture as exercise.
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