A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master Quotes

Freddy Krueger returns once again to terrorize the dreams of the remaining Dream Warriors, as well as those of a young woman who may know the way to defeat him for good.

Freddy Krueger: Welcome to Wonderland, Alice.

Freddy Krueger: No pain, no gain.

[first title card]
Title Card: "When deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake." - Job IV, 13-14

Freddy Krueger: I... am... eternal.

Freddy Krueger: How's this for a wet dream?

[about the roach motel]
Freddy Krueger: You can check in, but you can't check out.

Freddy Krueger: You shouldn't have buried me. I'm not dead.

Roland Kincaid: [knocks over cars on Freddy] Take that, motherfucker!

Freddy Krueger: Elm Street's last brat. Farewell.
Kristen Parker: We beat you before!
Freddy Krueger: And now you're all alone! Kristen, why don't you - uh - call on one of your little friends? Maybe they could help.
Kristen Parker: Never! I'm the last!
Freddy Krueger: Why don't you... reach out... and cut someone?
[Kristen screams]

Kristen Parker: We have matching luggage again. The bags under your eyes. Nightmares?
Alice Johnson: Yeah.
Kristen Parker: God, I hate dreaming.
Alice Johnson: Mmm. I love to dream. I just hate the ones about my Dad.
Kristen Parker: How do you handle your nightmares?
Alice Johnson: My Mom taught me when I was little. Did you ever hear of the dream master?
Kristen Parker: Sounds like a game show host to me.
Alice Johnson: No, it's a rhyme. Just have to dream about someplace fun. Remember, you're in control.
Kristen Parker: How do you know so much about dreams?
Alice Johnson: When, when it's all you have, you kinda become an expert.

Jock: [in response to Sheila's inhaler] Hey, baby. You're sucking on the wrong nossil.
Debbie Stevens: Hey, yo, needle dick! I bet you're the only male in this school suffering from penis envy.

Alice Johnson: Rest in hell.

Kristen Parker: How do you know so much about dreams?
Alice Johnson: Well, when it's all you have you sort of become an expert.

Dan Jordan: [waiting for Alice outside of the diner] All the towns in America, and I gotta move to The Bermuda Triangle. That's great.

Alice Johnson: Mind over matter.
[Walks away]
Debbie Stevens: Mind over matter? Sheila used to say that. God, every day she changes.
Dan Jordan: No. It's after every death.

Freddy Krueger: Alice, come to daddy.

Freddy Krueger: [being served a pizza pie consisting of living human faces] Mmm... the usual. My favorite. Mmm... Eeney, meeney, miney... MOE!
[stabs Rick's face with his glove]
Freddy Krueger: Mmm... Rick, you little meatball. I love soul food. Bring me more.
[notices Debbie and laughs]
Freddy Krueger: Your shift is over.

Freddy Krueger: Wanna suck face?
Sheila Kopecky: No!

[after killing Kincaid]
Freddy Krueger: One down. Two to go.

Debbie Stevens: How can you ride this health hazard? You know, it's no wonder that you have asthma.
Sheila Kopecky: No, you see, asthma is an inherited condition. Read a book now and then, you might know something.
Debbie Stevens: You know, speaking of books, isn't trig your favorite?
[Shelia nods yes and realizes what Debbie's asking]
Sheila Kopecky: "Dynasty" again?
[Debbie smiles]
Sheila Kopecky: Deb, do us a favor and get a VCR.

Freddy Krueger: [as nurse] I wanna draw some blood!

[after Kristen calls in Alice]
Freddy Krueger: How sweet. Fresh meat.

Roland Kincaid: Kristen! Freddy's back! Freddy's back! Freddy's back!
[Freddy stabs Kincaid in the stomach]
Roland Kincaid: I'll see you in hell.
Freddy Krueger: Tell 'em Freddy sent ya.
[Jams knives further and cackling]
Freddy Krueger: One down, two to go.
[Jams knives further again]
Roland Kincaid: [In the real world: Gasps and dies while, Freddy laughs maniacally]

Chorus Children: Now I lay me down to sleep. The Master of Dreams my soul will keep. In the reflection OF MY MIND'S EYE...
Alice Johnson: Evil will see itself, and it shall die!

Roland Kincaid: [to Kristen] Here comes your boyfriend. Can he give you a good night's sleep?
Rick Johnson: [to Kincaid and Joey] We don't kiss and tell. How about you guys?

Rick Johnson: Hey, Supergirl, it's dead. Give a bug a break.

Freddy Krueger: You've got their powers. I've got their souls. Come on!

Freddy Krueger: Sayonara, Rick-san!

Debbie Stevens: I don't believe in you.
Freddy Krueger: I believe in you.

[first lines]
Alice: Hello.
Kristen Parker: Do you live here?
Alice: Nobody lives here.
Kristen Parker: Where's Freddy?
Alice: Heh, heh. He's not home.

Alice Johnson: Maybe Freddy can't get to the new kids unless there's someone to bring him to 'em.

Alice Johnson: [Rick comes in and sits next to Alice, who is watching a video with Rick and Kristen in it in happier days] You made her so happy then.
Rick Johnson: Yeah, before all this Freddy shit.
Alice Johnson: [Turns to Rick] You know, I saw it in my dream. Th-There was this horrible man...
Rick Johnson: [Interrupting Alice with a tone in his voice] Oh, who, Freddy? Freddy? Look, I don't want to hear about Freddy, okay. I heard it all from Kristen and I don't want to hear anymore. So just stop it.
Alice Johnson: But I could smell the smoke, I can feel the fire. It wasn't a dream it was real!
Rick Johnson: I said stop it! She wasn't crazy and neither are you, so just stop it, please. God, why are you acting this way?
Alice Johnson: I don't know, Rick. Something happened in the dream and now... it's like she's a part of me.

Dan Jordan: So, uh, why the haunted house?
Kristen Parker: It's not just a house. It's his home. He waiting in there for me to dream.
Rick Johnson: Hey, it's okay. We're with you.
Kristen Parker: I told you, you can't help me. This isn't a normal nightmare. I'm history.

Freddy Krueger: [Disguised as the school nurse]
[Wakes Kristen with smelling salts]
Freddy Krueger: Feeling better now?
Kristen Parker: What happened?
Freddy Krueger: Don't worry, you had quite a nasty bump.
[turns around and starts to laugh darkly before turning around as himself]
Freddy Krueger: I wanna draw some blood!
Kristen Parker: NO!
[is woken up by smelling salts]
Kristen Parker: No!
Nurse: Feeling better now?
Kristen Parker: What happened?
Nurse: You had quite a nasty bump.

Debbie Stevens: What 17-year-old has fatal asthma?

Debbie Stevens: I don't work out for hours everyday to let some nightstalker beat me!
Alice Johnson: You don't get it. He's not a nightstalker, and it'll take a lot more than bench presses to defeat him.

Freddy Krueger: You flunk.

Freddy Krueger: If the food don't kill ya, the service will.
[laughs]

[wakes up from anesthesia and sees a doctor with a burned face]
Rick Johnson: Krueger!
Freddy Krueger: Well I ain't Dr. Seuss.

Roland Kincaid: Listen, little sister, you got this freako talent to bring folds into your dream, but we don't need it anymore. Time to start living like regular people.
Joey Crusel: Yeah. Let it rest. Did it ever occur to you that if you keep going in, you might stir him up again? Look, we'll help you. We all have better things to dream about.
Roland Kincaid: [slaps Joey a high five] You got that right. Signed and sealed.
Kristen Parker: [shows the bite from Kincaid's dog] Then what about this?
Roland Kincaid: That don't mean dick. My dog is like me. Drag him into your crazy dream, and he gets wild.

Kristen Parker: Joey! Kincaid! Help me!

Elaine Parker: Something matter with the cuisine?
Kristen Parker: Well, Mom, I'll tell you, when two of your friends die in the same day, let me know what it does to your appetite.
Elaine Parker: Your just tired, don't think I haven't noticed you haven't been sleeping young lady, that has got to stop honey.
Kristen Parker: [suddenly gets up, feeling drowsy instantly] What's wrong with me?
Elaine Parker: Adolescent anxiety. This will make it better.
Kristen Parker: [confused, looks at lemonade which is murky] Oh, God! What did you do?
Elaine Parker: Oh, Kristen.
[grabs her Mom's purse and sleeping pills fall out]
Kristen Parker: Jesus! Sleeping pills!
Elaine Parker: Look, Kristen. I'm sorry. It's just...
Kristen Parker: Sorry? Sorry that you and your tennis pals torched this guy and now he's after me? In case you haven't been keeping score, it's his fucking banquet! And I'm the last course.
Elaine Parker: Kristen, we went over this in therapy!
Kristen Parker: No mother, you just murdered me. Take that to your goddamn therapy.
Elaine Parker: Kristen!
Kristen Parker: No.
[runs out of the dining room, sedated and falling, and up to her bedroom]

Rick Johnson: Swish. Killed a fish.

Rick Johnson: She told us a story about Freddy. Fred Krueger. He's a town legend. He was a child killer freed on a technicality.
Dan Jordan: So?
Rick Johnson: So, a lot of parents got pissed of and, according to Kris, they hunted him down and roasted him like a Thanksgiving turkey.

[driving around while asleep, Alice spots Freddy standing in the road]
Alice Johnson: All right, I'm gonna punch his ticket in.
[jams on pedal harder, but Freddy disappears and car crashes]

Kristen Parker: God, I hate dreaming.
Alice Johnson: Mmm, I love to dream. I just hate the ones about my dad.

Alice Johnson: You have no right to stop me. If you just knew what was going on.
Mr. Dennis Johnson: I know very much what's going on with you and your friends.
Alice Johnson: Yeah, everybody thinks they know. But they don't.
Mr. Dennis Johnson: Look at me, Alice. I lost Rick because I didn't watch him. I don't want to lose you. We're all we have.

Debbie Stevens: Mm, there's Dan Jordan. Mm-hmm! We are talkin' one major-league hunk!
[Alice's daydreams]
Alice Johnson: You know, you are one major-league hunk.
Dan Jordan: [laughs] Thanks, Alice.

Freddy Krueger: I've been guarding my gate for a long time, bitch.

Rick Johnson: It's Avoid All Contact Day.

Roland Kincaid: This ain't my dreamland. Kristen! If you're here, I'm gonna pound your ass!