Movie Quotes for A Nightmare on Elm Street

A nightmare now would be plus or minus five or six. She’s about three.

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It drove us crazy when we didn’t know who it was, but it was even worse after they caught him.

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Get my dad, you asshole!

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It is now twelve, midnight and this is station KRGR, leaving the air.

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I even took his knives. So it’s okay now.

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He’s dead, honey, because Mommy killed him.

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What did you do, mother?

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And now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep. And if I die before I wake, I pray the lord my soul to take.

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Doctor, what’s she doing now? Is she asleep or awake?

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Came to make up. No big deal. Your mom home?

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I don’t see why you can’t just give me a pill to keep me from dreaming.

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He’s been in the John pukin’ since he saw it.

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Well what about the fingernails?

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Yeah, but you know he’s dead, right?

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Are you crazy, hit him with what?

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Oh, I believe anything is possible.

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Give me that damn thing!

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She had a nightmare, that someone was trying to kill her.

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Security? Security from what?

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But what if they meet a monster in their dreams, then what?

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Maybe we’re gonna have a big earthquake. They say things get really weird just before.

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I take back every bit of energy I gave you. You’re nothing. You’re shit.

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Glenn? Where are you? Are you there?

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It’s real momma, feel it.

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I’ll kill you slow!

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Nancy, you are going to get some sleep tonight if it kills me.

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Come on, Freddy. Can’t you catch me?

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I’m crazy after all!

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So what’s going on here? An orgy or somethin’?

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What was she doing there?

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Nancy, help me, please. Save me from…

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Hm, some dream, judging from that!

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I’ve got you now!

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It’s only a dream!

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What the hell are you doing here?

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I had a hard-on this morning when I woke up, Tina…Had your name written all over it.

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But what happens if they don’t do that?

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Oh, God. I look 20 years old!

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They turn their back on it. Take away its energy and it disappears.

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Will you shut up and let me in? Did you ever stand on a rose trellis in your bare feet?

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Do you know who that is mother? Because if you do you better tell me cause he’s after me now.

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Yeah, apparently he’s dead.

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Well I guess those people don’t wake up to tell what happens.

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Hi, daddy. I know what happened.

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Hello to you, too, Donald.

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No running in the hallway.

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I know you too well, Freddy.

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Hey, up yours with a twirling lawnmower!

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What I learned in the dream clinic. That’s what I’m trying to prove mother. Rod didn’t kill Tina and he didn’t hang himself. There’s this guy. He’s after us in our dreams.

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I’m going to split you in two.

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Fred Krueger did it, Daddy. And only I can get him. It’s my nightmare he comes to.

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I probably could have saved her if I’d have moved sooner. But I thought it was just another nightmare, like the one I had the night before. There was…there was this guy; he had knives for fingers.

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I’m going to punch out your ugly lights, whoever you are!

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The killer’s still loose, ya know.

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Oh, God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.

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Ya know Tina, she dreamed this was gonna happen.

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All day long I’ve been seeing that guy’s weird face and hearing those fingernails.

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How can you hear what she’s going to say?

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You better keep her home, for a few days, until she really gets over the shock of this.

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It even has his name written in it. Fred Krueger mom. Fred Krueger.

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But it’s not what you’re thinking.

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It’s just a sleepover, Rod. Tina and me. Glen was JUST leaving.

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Something’s wrong. It never gets this high!

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Ok, here’s what we’re going to do.

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You’re saying somebody else killed Tina? Who?

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I’ve got something better. I’m going to get her some help.

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Tina, you either gotta cut your fingernails or ya gotta stop that kind of dreaming. One or the other.

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I dreamed about a guy in a dirty red and green sweater.

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I just asked you to do one thing, to stay awake and watch me and to wake me up if it looked like I was having a bad dream, and what did you do, you shit?

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You think you was gonna get away from me?

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But that’s just not reality Nancy.

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Listen, Daddy, I’ve got a proposition for you. Listen very carefully, please.

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I know your here!

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Oh, man. Midnight. Baseball bats and boogeymen. Beautiful.

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Who cares what she says?

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I grab the guy in my dream. You see me struggling so you wake me up. We both come out, you whack the fucker and we got him.

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That’s why we were there mom. She just didn’t wanna sleep alone.

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I know you’re there Freddy.

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I haven’t been upstairs yet.

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Just a dream, Ma’.

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I want my mother and friends again.

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There’s four letters in my name, Rod. How can there be enough room on your joint for four letters?

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Well, the lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but somebody forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place and Krueger was free, just like that.

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Everybody’s got to dream, young girl. If you don’t dream,

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I’m going to go and get the guy who did it, and I want you to be there to arrest him when I bring him out. Okay?

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It’s dark in here.

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Nancy, you dreamed about the same creep I did.

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I don’t know. What’s the coroner got to say?

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What did I do?

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Everything’s gonna be all right! Everything’s under control!

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Did you see his face?

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Guys can have nightmares too ya know. Ya ain’t got a corner on the market or somethin’.

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Just tell me who did it, I’ll go get him, baby.

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Sometimes I wish you didn’t live right across the street.

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What did you do to your arm?

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Not from what, from whom.

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I don’t know who he is, but he’s burned and he wears a weird hat and a red and green sweater, really dirty. And he uses these knives, like giant fingernails…

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You believe this fog?

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Mother! What’s with the bars?

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What the HELL did that, Lieutenant?

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I burned it in English class

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It’s Rod Lane, bringing Lantz down, just three yards from the goal line! What a brilliant tackle and the crowd goes wild!

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You’re the jock. You have a baseball bat or something.

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Okay Krueger, we play in your court.

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Miss Nude America is going to be on tonight.

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Did they put him away?

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Help! I’ve got him! Hey, Daddy! I’ve Got him trapped! Help! Where are you?

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We don’t need a stretcher in there. We need a mop!

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Well he scraped his fingernails along things. Actually they were more like fingerknives or something. Something he’d made himself. They made a horrible sound

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Maybe your funeral, dickhead.

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You want to know who Fred Krueger was? He was a filthy child murderer who killed at least 20 kids in the neighborhood. Kids we all knew.

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Come out and show yourself, you bastard!

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Dammit! Where are you? Where are you Krueger?

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Oh, I feel like a million bucks. They say you’ve bottomed out when you can’t remember the night before.

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This is just a dream, this isn’t real. This is just a dream, he isn’t real. He isn’t…

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It’s too late, Krueger. I know the secret now. This is just a dream. You’re not alive. This whole thing is just a dream.

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One, two, Freddy’s coming for you. / Three, four, better lock your door. / Five, six, grab your crucifix. / Seven, eight, gonna stay up late. / Nine, ten, never sleep again.

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I’m your boyfriend now, Nancy.

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Fingernails? That’s amazing you saying that. That made me remember the dream I had last night.

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Whatever you do don’t fall asleep.

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