Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.

I wouldn't want the pressure of a Six Feet Under or the pressure of improvising like Curb Your Enthusiasm.

A lot of guys like to go to the beach and bring a crowd, but not me. I like to be alone and out there with a couple of pelicans.

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

Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.

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.

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

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

I think superheroes today are like whistle blowers.

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

That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.

No, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run.

Any boy who'd love a sailboat-patterned, swimsuited sausage who tames rabid foxes would be wonderful. And impossible.

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

If love is blind I guess I'll buy myself a cane

One of the failings of ideologues is their inability to see that everyone else isn't necessarily an ideologue like them.

You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house.

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them.

What is the best use of my time on this planet?