Nancy Thompson [about Tina]
She dreamed this would happen. She had a nightmare about somebody trying to kill her last night. That's why we were there, Mom. She was afraid to sleep alone.
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7 quotes Nancy Thompson Nancy Thompson [to Glen]
I asked you to do just one thing. Just stay awake and watch me. Just wake me if it looked like I was having a bad dream. And what did you do, you shit? (hits Glen's knee) You fell asleep.
Nancy Thompson I'm into survival.
Nancy Thompson [to Glen]
Whatever you do, don't fall asleep.
Nancy Thompson [to Marge]
His name is even in it, written right in here! Fred Krueger. Fred Krueger! You know who that is, Mom? You better tell me, cause now he's after me!
Nancy Thompson [to Freddy]
Come out and show yourself, you bastard.
Nancy Thompson [to Freddy]
Hey, can't catch me!
Scenes with Nancy Thompson
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Had a hardon this morning when I woke up, Tina. Had your name written all over it.
There's four letters in my name, Rod. How could there be room on your joint for four letters?
Nancy He's nuts about you.
Yeah, nuts.
All day long I've been seeing that guy's weird face, and hearing those fingernails...
Nancy Fingernails? That's amazing, you saying that. It made me remember the dream I had last night.
What'd you dream?
Nancy I dreamed about this guy in a dirty red and green sweater.
But what about the fingernails?
Nancy He scraped his fingernails along things. Actually, they were more like finger-knives or something, like he'd made them himself. Anyway, they made this horrible noise (imitates screeching noise)
Nancy. You dreamed about the same creep I did, Nancy.
That's impossible.
Nancy [about Freddy]
What'd he look like? You get a look at him?
No.
Nancy Well then how can you say somebody else was there?
Because somebody cut her. While I watched.
Nancy Somebody cut her while you watched and you don't know what he looked like?
I couldn't see the ****er. You could just see the cuts happening, all at once. I probably could've saved her if I'd moved sooner. But I thought it was just another nightmare, like the one I had the night before. There was this guy who had knives for fingers.
What did you do to your arm?
Nancy I burned it in English class.
Nancy Glen, you bastard.
What'd I do?
Nancy I asked you to do just one thing. Just stay awake and watch me. Just wake me if it looked like I was having a bad dream. And what did you do, you shit? (hits Glen on the knee) You fell asleep.
Nancy You believe it's possible to dream about what's going to happen?
No.
Nancy You believe in the bogeyman?
No. Rod killed Tina, and you know it.
Nancy The killer's still loose, you know.
Lt. Thompson
You saying somebody else killed Tina? Who?
Nancy I don't know who he is. But he's burned, he wears a weird hat, a red and green sweater, real dirty, and he uses some sort of knifes he's got made into a sort of glove. Like giant finger-nails.
Nancy [at a sleep clinic]
I don't see why you couldn't just give me a pill to keep me from dreaming.
Dr. King Everyone's got to dream. If you don't dream, you go... (points to head)
You didn't sleep, did you? The doctor says you have to sleep or you'll--
Nancy Go even crazier?
I don't think you're going crazy, and stop drinking that damn coffee.
Nancy [about Freddy's hat, that she brought back from her dream]
His name is even in it, written right in here: Fred Krueger. Fred Krueger! You know who that is, Mom? You better tell me, cause now he's after me!
Nancy, trust your mother for once. You'll feel better as soon as you sleep.
Nancy Feel better?! You call this feeling better?! Or should I grab a bottle and veg out with you. Avoid everything happening to me by just getting good and loaded.
[Marge slaps her]
Fred Krueger can't be after you, Nancy. He's dead! Fred Krueger is dead. Dead and gone. Believe me, I know. Now go to bed. I order you, go to bed.
Nancy You knew about him all this time, and you've been acting like he was someone I made up!
You're sick, Nancy. Imagining things. You need to sleep, (picks up bottle of gin) it's as simple as that.
Nancy (throws bottle of gin onto floor)
Screw sleep! (runs to front door)
Nancy!
Nancy!It's only a nightmare!
Nancy That's enough! (exits door)
You ever read about the Balinese way of dreaming?
Nancy No.
They got a whole system they call "dream skills". So, if you have a nightmare, for instance like falling, right?
Nancy Yeah.
Instead of screaming and getting nuts, you say, okay, I'm gonna make up my mind that I fall into a magic world where I can get something special, like a poem or song. They get all their art literature from dreams. Just wake up and write it down. Dream skills.
Nancy And what if they meet a monster in their dream? Then what?
They turn their back on it. Takes away its energy, and it disappears.
Nancy What happens if they don't do that?
I guess those people don't wake up to tell what happens.
[glancing at the book Nancy's reading]
"Booby Traps and Improvised Anti-personnel Devices"? What're you reading it for?
Nancy I'm into survival.
You want to know who Fred Krueger was? He was a filthy child killer who got at least twenty kids, kids from our area, kids we all knew. It drove us all crazy when we didn't know who was doing it. But it was even worse when they caught him.
Nancy What happened?
Marge Well, the lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but someone forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place, and Fred Krueger was free, just like that. So a bunch of us parents tracked him down after they let him go. Found him in an old boiler room. We poured gasoline all around the place, left a trail out the door, locked the door, then let it burn. He's dead, Nan. He can't get you. Mommy killed him.
Nancy I know you're there, Krueger.
Freddy
You think you was gonna get away from me?
Nancy I know you too well now, Freddy.
Freddy
And now you die.
Nancy It's too late, Krueger. I know the secret now. This is just a dream, too. You're not alive. The whole thing is a dream. I want my mother and friends again.
Freddy
You what?
Nancy I take back every bit of energy I ever gave you. You're nothing. You're shit.
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.
But that's just not reality, Nancy.
Nancy [pulling Krueger's hat out of a drawer]
It's real, Momma. Feel it.
Give me that damn thing!
Nancy It even has his name written in it. Fred Krueger, mom. Fred Krueger! Do you know who that is, Mother? Because if you do, you better tell me 'cause he's after me now.
Nancy, trust your mother for once, please. You'll feel better when you get some sleep.
Nancy Feeling better?! You call this feeling better?! Or maybe I should grab that bottle and veg out with you. Avoid everything happening to me by just getting good and loaded.
Nancy You knew about him all this time, and you've been acting like he was someone I made up!
You're sick, Nancy. You're imagining things. You'll feel better when you sleep, (picks up a bottle of gin) It's as simple as that.
Nancy [throws bottle of gin onto floor]
Screw sleep!
Nancy! It's only a nightmare!
Nancy That's enough!
Nancy [on the phone, about Glen]
Hi, Daddy. I know what happened.
Lt. Thompson
I haven't been upstairs yet.
Nancy Yeah, but you know he's dead, right?
Lt. Thompson
Yeah, apparently he's dead.
Nancy Listen, Daddy, I've got a proposition for you. Listen very carefully, please.
Lt. Thompson
Nancy.
Nancy 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?
Lt. Thompson
Just tell me who did it. I'll go get him, baby.
Nancy Fred Krueger did it, Daddy, and only I can get him. It's my nightmare he comes to.
