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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: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 28
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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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[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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