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It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.

Judd Nelson

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Judd Nelson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 28
Actor
Film Actor
Film Producer
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Stage Actor
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Portland
Maine
Judd Asher Nelson
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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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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 like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.
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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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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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I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.
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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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You can do crap work in a big movie, and it does good things. You can do great work in a movie no one sees, it does nothing. That's the way it goes.
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With failure, you just try again.
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My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
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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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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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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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John Hurt was incredible to work with.
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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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[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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As a kid, I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.
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When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.
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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] 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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