Robert Englund

“I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'”

“Fear has been good to yours truly.”

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

“I sat in the barber's chair in David Miller's makeup shop, hours and hours of trial and error. While David poked at me with his crusty brushes, I grew more and more profane. That's how I started to find the voice of Freddy.”

“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?”

“Johnny Depp was the most polite young actor I've ever worked with.”

“I have an Italian comedy at the Venice Film Festival.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I was trained to serve the writer and director as an actor before I serve myself. Not to say that's gotten in my way, but that's a different way of working than most American actors work.”

“But it's mostly about pacing yourself when you do these movies.”

“'Nightmare on Elm Street' really lends itself to using new technologies. CGI would be a great way to exploit and embrace the dream sequences.”

“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.”

“When I was a boy, I read a terrible article in a big weekly American magazine called the 'Saturday Evening Post.' In the middle of this family magazine on my parent's coffee table was an article about this family that was camping, and they were all mauled by a grizzly bear in their sleeping bags.”

“As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.”

“I always wanted to play a monster, and I also wanted to work with Wes Craven.”

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

“But mostly it's about pacing yourself when you do these movies.”