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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: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 28
Actor
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Judd Asher Nelson
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You know who was wonderful to work with? Was Paul Gleason, may he rest in peace.
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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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Heroes always make the right decision I find that seldom happens in my life.
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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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As a kid, I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.
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[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's a type of serial killer, but I don't know.
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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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[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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It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.
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I wasn't Santa in Santa Jr., but I was Santa in Cancel Christmas.
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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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I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.
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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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My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors
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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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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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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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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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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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A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.
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