50 Best A Nightmare on Elm Street Quotes

Freddy: Why are you screaming?
[pause]
Freddy: I haven't even cut you yet!
[laugh]

Nancy: [after Quentin storms out of his father's office] Quentin! Quentin, wait!
[Quentin punches the lockers]
Nancy: Wait!
Quentin: WHAT?
Nancy: Slow down!
[Nancy grabs his arm]
Nancy: Stop!
Quentin: We got him killed. Our stories... Our lies.
Nancy: What if we can make him stop?
Quentin: What if we can't?

Freddy: [to Jesse] Did you know that after the heart stops beating, the brain can function for well over seven minutes?
[pause]
Freddy: We got six more minutes to play.

Nancy: [off screen] Krueger!
Freddy: [to Quentin] Your girlfriend's here. Be right back.

Freddy: [Nancy is screaming] Oh, that's music to my ears.
Nancy: [struggling] I wanna wake up!
Freddy: You can't wake up. I had to keep you awake long enough so when you finally slept, you'd never wake up again. We're gonna be in here a long time. Did you really think your boyfriend could wake you up?
[puts claw on chest]
Freddy: I'm your boyfriend now.

Alan: You open this door, Krueger!
Freddy: What do you think I did? I didn't do anything!

Quentin: Look, if you really wanna talk, how come over the last couple of years, whenever I've invited you out, you've just never shown up?
Nancy: I don't know if you've noticed, but I don't exactly fit in.
Quentin: Ok, look. If we survive the next 24 hours, then I'll take you out on a real date.
Nancy: And what if I say no?
Quentin: Why don't you sleep on it?

Freddy: You really shouldn't fall asleep in class.
[scratches chalkboard]
Freddy: Hi, Kris.
Kris: [backing away from Krueger] Who are you?
Freddy: [walking towards Fowles] You look just as beautiful as ever.
[raises his glove]
Freddy: You have nothing to worry about. This wont hurt one... little... bit.

Freddy: Wake up! You're bleeding.

Quentin: Nancy, I can't let you go to sleep, you're not gonna wake up.
Nancy: I know you won't let that happen.

Quentin: [Trying desperately to shake Nancy awake] Wake up, Nancy, wake up. Nancy, please. Please don't do this please. Nancy, come back. Please wake up. You promised.

Freddy: [to Quentin, who he's beat against a pipe, cut down his chest, thrown against a mirror, and punched in the face] Now why don't you just fucking *die*?

Freddy: [Kris finds her dog mangled] I was just petting him.
[laughs]

Nancy: Hey, Quentin. Nightmare's over.

Dean: I *can* sleep... I just don't want to.

Nancy: [Cuts off Freddy's hand] It hurts now, doesn't it? That because you're in my world now, bitch!

Quentin: Don't you ever get tired of working here every weekend?
Nancy: Don't you ever get tired of coming here every weekend?
[Quentin smiles]

Quentin: [Storms into his father's office] You killed Kruger.
Alan: Where'd you here that name?
Quentin: You chased him, you cornered him and you burned him to death. You hunted him!
Alan: We were not hunting. We were protecting you.
Quentin: [shouting] From what?
Alan: From *him*. From what he did to you. From what you kids said he did to you.
Quentin: [shouting] We were five! We would've said anything! Why didn't you do to the police?
Alan: You were so young.
Quentin: [Whipspers to himself] No. God! And the things we said he did. The cave. Did you ever find it?
Alan: No.
Quentin: How do you know that he was guilty?
[His father looks uncertain]
Nancy: Oh, my god!
Quentin: You killed an innocent man!
Alan: Mm-mm. There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about that night, Quentin.
Quentin: Good, you deserve at least that.
Alan: Quentin, when you grow up and you have kids, I hope you never know the feeling of utterly failing to protect them.

Quentin: Fuck! What does he want from us? He's never gonna stop!

Quentin: [after realizing he fell asleep when he was supposed to stay awake] Oh, shit.

Resident: I'm gonna give you a little something for the pain. It'll put you right out.
Nancy: No, mom, I don't want it. I don't want it, mom, I don't want it.
Dr. Gwen Holbrook: Shh, it's okay. It's okay.
Nancy: No, mom, no. I don't want it. I don't want it. Don't let her do it.
Resident: This might sting a bit.
[Her hand becomes Freddy's glove]
Nancy: [Shrieks] NO!

Jesse: [as he finds himself asleep and dreaming] Oh, God!
Freddy: No. Just me...

Quentin: Look, we're running out of time.
Nancy: What do you mean?
Quentin: [Reading a book] But then it says at the 70-hour mark the insomniac will begin to experience micro-naps. "His brain will begin to shut down its functions for several seconds in an attempt to recharge itself." Which basically means you're dreaming, but you don't know it. Like, even if you're awake. And then it says that after that, your brain will shut down, inducing a coma. Which is permanent sleep.

Quentin: [after injecting adrenaline] Whoa.

Freddy: [Nancy falls into a pool of blood] How's this for a wet dream?

Dr. Gwen Holbrook: [On the phone with another parent] Nancy's starting to remember.

Alan: [Throws the lit gas tank through the window] This is for my son!

Quentin: You can't just take that. You have no idea what it's gonna do to you.
Quentin: You know what? That is kind of the least of my concerns right now, so, do you want some?
Nancy: No.
[Quentin sticks himself in the leg]

Freddy: Your mouth says no...
[moving his claw up Nancy's leg]
Freddy: But your body says yes...

Nora: Who can remember being five years old?

Nancy: He brought us here so that we would remember what he did to us.
Quentin: [Slams his hands against the bed he's sitting on] *Fuck!*

Nancy: Memories don't kill you.

[first lines]
Dean: Can I have another? Hey. Can I have some more coffee, please?

Quentin: [Places his cross necklace around her neck] You gotta believe in something, right?
[They kiss]
Quentin: I'm gonna be here when you wake up. You're gonna make it.

Freddy: [to a young Nancy] If you can keep a secret, I'll take you to a special place.

Freddy: Nice try, Nancy. Now let me take a stab.

Quentin: [On the phone] Nancy, he got to him. Jesse's dead. He died in his sleep.

Quentin: We were wrong. He's not after us because we lied. He's after us because we told the truth.
Nancy: He brought us here so we could remember what he did to us.

Marcus: [In video] I'm starting to dream with my eyes open. I can't tell what's real anymore. I haven't slept in three days. If I sleep, I dream. If I dream, I'm dead.

Freddy: [while slamming Quentin's face into a pipe] You can't save her.
[Turns him around]
Freddy: Tag. You're it.
[Makes a slash across his chest]

Nancy: [Sees a book in their pile] What's this one doing here?
Quentin: It's The Pied Piper of Hamelin. I saw it in one of my dreams. It's about a guy who's betrayed by a town and gets his revenge by taking away their children.
Nancy: I keep dreaming about children, too. And then there's also a school.
Quentin: Well, it's gotta mean something.
Nancy: Yeah, but, I mean, what? We didn't go to school together until, like, 6th grade.

Freddy: [to Nancy] You can't hurt me. This is my world. And you can't ever leave.

Freddy: Remember me?

Alan: [to Nancy] You listen to me. As far as everyone around here is concerned, Fred Kruger never existed.

Freddy: Little Nancy. Now that you caught me, what game do you wanna play next?
Nancy: Fuck you!
Freddy: Ooh, sounds like fun. It's a little fast for me. How about we hang, first?
[Freddy grabs Nancy and makes her turn to face the bodies of her friends]
Nancy: No. It's not real.
Freddy: It's real. I'm real.

Kris: [sees picture on Dean's grave] You knew Dean that far back?
Kris: Jesus, that is me. But I don't know how I'm in that picture. I didn't meet Dean until high school.

Kris: Dean said something right before he died...
Jesse: Oh, please don't...
Kris: He said, "You're not real." He kept repeating it over and over again. Do you have any idea what that means?
Jesse: No. I don't. Think about. What would it mean? Dean was on a truck load of medication when...
Kris: Jesse, when it happened, it was like somebody was making him do it but there was nobody there. Jesse, you have to believe me!
Jesse: Kris, it was late and you were scared! Your mind was just playing tricks on you that's all...
Nancy: [approaches Kris] I believe you.
Kris: You do?
Nancy: I've seen, I saw...
Jesse: You didn't see anything. You weren't there. Kris was. She's already fucked up, so leave her alone!
Nancy: [Kris and Jesse leave] You have no idea what I've seen...

Kris: I'm having these dreams... and there's this man... and he's burned

Jesse: Just don't fall asleep. If you die in your dreams, you die for real.

Freddy: Little Nancy. All grown up.
Nancy: [backing up] You're just a nightmare.
Freddy: [moving closer to Thompson] That's right. No one can ever prove I was ever here.
Nancy: Who are you?
Freddy: You don't remember? You must. You're my number one. You're my... little Nancy.
[licks Thompson's cheek]
Nancy: [moves face away] I set the alarm.
Freddy: Yes, you did. In your dream.
[sinister laugh; holds Thompson's hand in his clawed one; sniffs her hair]
Freddy: You smell different.