Robert Englund Quotes

When you're an actor and you can set your arm on fire, you feel kind of magical.

No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.

If I'm going to fly for more than twenty feet it's generally a good idea to get a stunt guy.

I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.

I am like a man so busy in letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning the other.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline.

I'm a bit insane when it comes to doing my own stunts and getting down and dirty. It's fun, you know? It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

Every fire hydrant in the country will be concerned.

What we need as much as money is consensus about how we live [with fire] in that countryside [prone to forest fires] or at least agreement about how to decide…. More than 72,000 communities are at risk and only 20% have a plan for protection.

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

A drop of water can't stop a fire alone. But a drop of water, plus another one, plus another one, then you have the rain, and the rain can stop the fire.

It's funny how in the long time of me working in various countries and various situations that there is this kind of idea out in the media that I am a daredevil and that I risk the lives of everyone around me, but nobody ever gets hurt on my shoot. Some crew members sometimes, but the actors are OK.

When your house is on fire, you cant be bothered with the neighbors. Or, as we say in Chess, if your King is under attack you don't worry about losing a Pawn on the Queen's side

Ah, Mastery of the Five Elements!" "Is that the one we want?" I asked. "No, but a good one. How to tame the five essential elements of the universe - earth, air, water, fire, and cheese!" "Cheese?

The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.

What's funny is we were doing some fire at work the other day and it was reminding me of all the firework I got to do as Havok, because a lot of that was as practical as you could get.

Gettin' near the fire, chica, doesn't necessarily mmean you'll get burned.

We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet survives, it will only be through heroism. Not occasional heroism, a remarkable instance of it here and there, but constant heroism, systematic heroism, heroism as governing principle.

We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it's a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better.

Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming.

For a lot of explosions and stuff like that [in Transformers] you're harnessed to something getting swung in the air or dragged onto something or thrown onto something.

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.

Worrying about a large institution, especially when it has computers, is like worrying about a large gorilla, especially when it's on fire.