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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
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
Television Actor
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Portland
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Judd Asher Nelson
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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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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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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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[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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My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
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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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[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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