Memorable quotes for
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

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Nancy: Whatever you do don't fall asleep.

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Marge: He's dead, honey, because Mommy killed him.

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Children: One, two, Freddy's coming for you. / Three, four, better lock your door. / Five, six, grab your crucifix. / Seven, eight, better stay awake. / Nine, ten, never sleep again.

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Rod Lane: I had a hard-on this morning when I woke up, Tina... Had your name written all over it.
Tina Gray: There's four letters in my name, Rod. How can there be enough room on your joint for four letters?
[Laughter]
Rod Lane: Hey, up yours with a twirling lawnmower!

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Tina Gray: Please, God...
Freddy Krueger: [Shows off his glove] This... is God.

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[Tina is in the alley behind her home when a trash-can lid suddenly comes rolling out & crashes at her feet. She turns around]
Freddy Krueger: Tina...
[laughs mockingly as he appears, extending his arms across the entire width of the alley]
Tina Gray: Oh God!
Freddy Krueger: This... is GOD!
[laughs as he takes off after her]
Tina Gray: [screams & runs toward the house but is cut off]

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Cop #3: [after seeing the crime scene in Glen's room] What the HELL did that, Lieutenant?
Donald: I don't know. What's the coroner got to say?
Cop #3: He's been in the John pukin' since he saw it.

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Fred Krueger: I'm your boyfriend now, Nancy.

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Nancy: [screaming in the boiler room] Come out and show yourself, you bastard!
[fixing her watch, and Kruger comes from behind]
Nancy: [screaming and jumping from the boiler room and landing in front of her house on a rose bush] Dammit! Where are you, where are you Kruger? I know your here!
Fred Krueger: [whispering] Hey, Nancy.
[pops out from under the rose bush]
Nancy: [jumps towards and grabs him] I'm gonna get you now!
[screaming, and waking in her room alone]
Nancy: I'm crazy after all.

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Nancy: [talking on the phone with her dad] Hi, daddy. I know what happened.
[appealing to Glen]
Donald: I haven't been upstairs yet.
Nancy: Yeah, but you know he's dead, right!
Donald: Yeah apparently he's dead.
Nancy: Listen, Daddy, I got a proposition for you. Listen very closely.
Donald: Nancy!
Nancy: I'm gonna get the guy who did it, and I want you to be there to arrest him when I bring him out, OK...
Donald: Just tell me who did it, I'll go get him, baby!
Nancy: ...Fred Kruger did it, Daddy...

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

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Nancy: I'm into survival.

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Fred Krueger: I'm gonna kill you slow.

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Donald: What was she doing there?
Marge: Hello to you, too, Donald.
Donald: [sarcastically] Marge.

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Rod Lane: 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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[Freddy wears Tina mask]
Tina Gray: Nancy, help me, please. Save me from...
[Removes mask]
Fred Krueger: Freddy!

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Hallguard: Where's your pass?
Nancy: Screw your pass.

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Fred Krueger: I'm gonna split you in two.

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Nancy: It's only a dream!
Fred Krueger: Come to Freddy.
Nancy: GOD DAMN YOU!

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Hallguard: [off screen] Hey... Nancy!
[flashing Freddy's finger knives]
Hallguard: No running in the hallways!

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Nancy: Ok, here's what we're going to do.
Glen Lantz: It's dark in here.
Nancy: But it's not what you're thinking.

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Glen Lantz: What did you do to your arm?
Nancy: I burned it in English class

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[Glen is trying to get to sleep on the couch alone, but the sounds of Tina and Rod having sex is keeping him up]
Glen Lantz: Morality sucks.

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Glen Lantz: I'm going to punch out your ugly lights, whoever you are!

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Nancy: Oh, God. I look 20 years old!

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Nancy: 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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Nancy: Glen, you bastard
Glen Lantz: What did I do?
Nancy: 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?
[Nancy then slaps him on the knee]
Nancy: You fell asleep.

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John, Kid in Classroom: 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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Tina's Mom: You okay, Tina?
Tina Gray: Just a dream, Ma'.
Tina's Mom: Hm, some dream, judging from that!
[Tina looks down to see that there are four tears in her night-gown]

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Voice on Glen's television set: It is now twelve, midnight and this is station KRGR, leaving the air.

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Glen Lantz: Oh, man. Midnight. Baseball bats and boogeymen. Beautiful.

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Glen Lantz: Miss Nude America is on tonight.
Mrs. Lantz: Well how can you hear what she has to say?
Glen Lantz: Who cares what she has to say.

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Ambulance crew member: We don't need a stretcher in there. We need a mop!

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Tina Gray: [to Nancy] Maybe we're gonna have a big earthquake. They say things get really weird just before.

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Tina Gray: All day long I've been seeing that guy's weird face and hearing those fingernails.
Nancy: Fingernails? That's amazing you saying that. That made me remember the dream I had last night.
Tina Gray: What'd you dream?
Nancy: I dreamed about a guy in a dirty red and green sweater.
[Glen looks up, curious]
Tina Gray: Well what about the fingernails?
Nancy: 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
[Imitating nails on a chalkboard]
Nancy: screeech.

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Rod Lane: [to Tina] Guys can have nightmare too ya know. Ya ain't got a corner on the market or somethin'.

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Nancy: [At the police station] Ya know Tina, she dreamed this was gonna happen.
Donald: What?
Nancy: She had a nightmare, that someone was trying to kill her.
[to her mother, sobbing]
Nancy: That's why we were there mom. She just didn't wanna sleep alone.

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Nancy: 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.
Marge: But that's just not reality Nancy.
Nancy: [Pulling Krueger's hat out of a drawer] It's real momma, feel it.
Marge: Give me that damn thing!
Nancy: It even has his name written in it. Fred Krueger mom. Fred Krueger.
[Realizing her mother knows about him]
Nancy: 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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Tina's Mom: [On seeing Tina's torn nightgown] Tina, you either gotta cut your fingernails or ya gotta stop that kind of dreamin'... one or the other.

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Rod Lane: [after tackling Glen on the lawn] He takes him down with only three yards to the goal line! The crowd goes wild!
Tina Gray: Rod, what the hell are you doing here?
Rod Lane: I just came to see you.
[Looks at Glen and Nancy]
Rod Lane: So what's going on here? An orgy or something?
Glen Lantz: Maybe a funeral, dickhead.
Nancy: [Putting Rod's flashing switchblade back in and giving it to him] It's just a sleepover, Rod. Glen didn't mean it. He was just kidding.
Rod Lane: [to Tina, with a smile] Did you see his face?
Glen Lantz: [Mimicking Rod with a face] Did you see his face?

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Tina Gray: Nancy... you dreamed about the same creep I did.

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Nancy: [she notices Glen standing outside her window with mud-caked soles] What are you doing here?
Glen Lantz: [holds one of his muddy feet up to her] Have you ever stood on a rose trellis in your bare feet?

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Nancy: Help! I've got him! Hey, Daddy! I've Got him trapped! Help! Where are you?
Sgt. Parker: Everything's gonna be all right! Everything's under control!
Nancy: Get my dad, you asshole!

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