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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.

Judd Nelson

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Judd Nelson
Age: 64
Born: 1959
Born: November 28
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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 Hurt was incredible to work with.
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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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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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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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Catcher in the Rye had a profound impact on me-the idea that we all have lots of dreams that are slowly being chipped away as we grow up.
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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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My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
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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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The first animation thing I did was the first Transformers, the one that was animated many years ago. And I had heard that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it.
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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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[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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With failure, you just try again.
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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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[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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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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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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I like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.
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[St. Elmo's Fire] it was pretty soon after that. I know we didn't do Breakfast Club knowing we were going to do that.
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