I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.
Everybody underestimated the universality of the concept of a nightmare or a bad dream.
When I was 9, I went to a birthday party. We were supposed to see a cowboy movie, but the programming got screwed up and we saw 'The Bad Seed' instead. Horrifying. For years I was frightened of girls with pigtails.
That old rock and roll song, "looking for love in all the wrong places," it's true.
Kids today don't watch a black and white movie.
I have some friends that just stick to the same criteria over and over again not realizing there are lots of other kinds of people and that may be what you like. People get in that mindset and put their blinders on.
I get a lot of teenagers going, 'Yo, Krueger,' and honking their horn and giving me the claw. Yeah, I'm recognized.
God didnt put you on earth just to read about what others do. He made you TO DO some things others will want to read about!
I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.
If you're put on a set with a lot of people, it's just nice to see everyone working together.
It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.