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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.

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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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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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] 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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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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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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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 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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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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It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.
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Death is not my best subject.
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Voice-over stuff is so much fun because you don't have hair and makeup and wardrobe. You get to show up. And there were some talented people, and we don't even know them. And they're so gifted. They can do all these accents and voices. It's really fun to do that stuff. It's really like actor camp.
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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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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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I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.
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I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.
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John Hurt was incredible to work with.
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