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I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.

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Judd Nelson
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 28
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
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Portland
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Judd Asher Nelson
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The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it.
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Voice-over stuff is so much fun because you don't have hair and makeup and wardrobe. You get to show up. And there were some talented people, and we don't even know them. And they're so gifted. They can do all these accents and voices. It's really fun to do that stuff. It's really like actor camp.
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There were a few things that, in rehearsal, any one of us might try. [John] Hughes would go, I like that, to me spitting up in the air and catching it in my mouth. It was just something I did in a rehearsal and Molly [ Ringwald] went, Ewww. And John went, Can you do that again? And I went all day long, and he was like, Okay, let's do
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My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
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When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.
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[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.
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Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence.
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If you read a script enough, especially a good script - I try to read it 40 to 50 times before you begin so you get a sense of the arc: what happens before, what happens after, what happens during.
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Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.
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I think that sometimes you don't have the opportunities for some of the most A-list-type movies, big-budget movies. But I think it's important to keep working and make the best of what's available. Because otherwise, what? Are you just going to get bitter and moan? What does my mom always say? If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
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While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.
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[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know.
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You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.
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I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.
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A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.
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[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful.
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You have to kind of roll with the punches. That's why I think work begets work to a certain degree. I just try and keep busy.
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You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered.
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Kim Coates is really funny. He's a blast. If you have to get beaten up and tortured, he's a good guy to get tortured by.
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I don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people that are hurting each other everywhere.
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