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Judd Nelson
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 28
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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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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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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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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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While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.
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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 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 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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Death is not my best subject.
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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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With failure, you just try again.
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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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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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John Hurt was incredible to work with.
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There were a few things that, in rehearsal, any one of us might try. [John] Hughes would go, I like that, to me spitting up in the air and catching it in my mouth. It was just something I did in a rehearsal and Molly [ Ringwald] went, Ewww. And John went, Can you do that again? And I went all day long, and he was like, Okay, let's do
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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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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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Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence.
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