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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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Judd Nelson
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 28
Actor
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Portland
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Judd Asher Nelson
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Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life.
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I wanted to meet Orson Welles. So I was like, whatever, somehow get me in on this. I'm able to get cast in it, but Orson Welles worked alone. He worked before all of us worked. He didn't want to work with anyone else.
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My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
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It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.
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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 like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.
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Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man.
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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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Fandango is not really a Western. It's really just set in Texas. It's a road picture. And then I did one that hasn't come out yet called Kreep, which is set in Texas, but it's not really a Western. But it has a more rural-Texas feel to it.
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You know who was wonderful to work with? Was Paul Gleason, may he rest in peace.
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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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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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I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.
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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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[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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I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.
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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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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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Stagecoach is really my first Western-Western, the whole horses and gunplay. It was really fun. We shot it fast, too. We got lucky with the weather. If it rained, I don't know if we would have been able to finish it. We had like 12 shooting days for the whole thing.
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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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