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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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Judd Nelson
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 28
Actor
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Film Producer
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Portland
Maine
Judd Asher Nelson
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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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I like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.
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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 am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.
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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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[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 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 took all the philosophy courses I could.
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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 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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