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I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler

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Judd Nelson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 28
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Screenwriter
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Portland
Maine
Judd Asher Nelson
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Stella
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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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[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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Heroes always make the right decision I find that seldom happens in my life.
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My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors
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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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It's strange, 'cause a play, you start at the beginning and you go all the way through to the end. So it's naturally very well rehearsed and you get a rhythm and a flow. In film, you can shoot the ending before the beginning. It's very odd. And it's like a craft you have to learn.
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I went to acting school with Mario Van Peebles. For a little while, he was at the same school. So he asked me if I wanted to do [ New Jack City]. He said, There's not really a role. We'll figure something out. But would you like to? And I was like, Sure. 'Cause he said it was Chris Rock and Ice T's first movie.
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My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
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I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.
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[John] Hughes is a great loss, I think. He was the first filmmaker that could look at someone who was young without seeing them as being less.
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John Hurt was incredible to work with.
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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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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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[John] Hughes was well aware that to ignore the seriousness of young people is to encourage things like Columbine, so you might want to listen. And we were all pretty serious, a little bit, in high school. Some a little more than others.
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Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence.
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[St. Elmo's Fire] it was pretty soon after that. I know we didn't do Breakfast Club knowing we were going to do that.
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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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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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Remember to be as smart as you are.
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I took all the philosophy courses I could.
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