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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
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Portland
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Judd Asher Nelson
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My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.
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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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Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
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You know who was wonderful to work with? Was Paul Gleason, may he rest in peace.
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I took all the philosophy courses I could.
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Heroes always make the right decision I find that seldom happens in my life.
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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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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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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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The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.
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I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself.
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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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My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors
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As a kid, I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.
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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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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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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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