Robert Englund Quotes

Everything has a place and time.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

There are times when sense may be unseasonable, as well as truth.

Things come suitable to the time.

To each thing belongs it's measure. Occasion is best to know.

If there is one thing I have learned during my years as a professional, it is that the only thing constant about golf is its inconstancy.

I met someone who said they'd figured out my genre: "madcap redemption comedy." I'll buy that.

Mutability is the badge of infirmity. It is seldom that a man continues to wish and design the same thing two days alike. Now he is for marrying; and now a mistress is preferred to a wife. Now he is ambitious and aspiring; presently the meanest servant is not more humble than he. This hour he squanders his money away; the next he turns miser. Sometimes he is frugal and serious; at other times profuse, airy, and gay.

I suppose it's too bad people can't be a little more consistent. But if they were, maybe they would stop being people.

Life is funny. Life isn’t categorized into comedy, drama, action, is it?So I don’t know why they try to categorize everything. It drives me crazy-why it would have to be just a romantic comedy or…I want to have a little integrity, a little story, you know

If the story's there for it, if there's a reason for it, then I'm all for it. But if you throw in a barbed wire match just to do a barbed wire match, then it makes no sense to me.

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Truly man is a marvelously vain, diverse, and undulating object. It is hard to found any constant and uniform judgment on him.

The philosophy has always been pretty clean and straightforward, which is that if I see something that I like and I can see it's value to the audience and it's value to me then I'm going to take my shot at it regardless at the genre.

Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

I don't care about the genre so much. I'm good with horror, but I like other genres, too.

There are many other writers whose work I admire tremendously, but none whose work struck me at just the right young age. Jack Vance taught me that speculative fiction, science fiction, could be wonderfully and liberatingly stylistic. It didn't have to be pulp stuff. He really changed my writing and my view of science fiction, so if nothing else, my little homage to him in the novelette I wrote for that anthology is my thank-you to him. He helped me see that any genre can have excellent writing in it.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

The only truly consistent are the dead.

The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.

Self-control is the ability to restrain a laugh at the wrong place.