I got to play Santa, too. It's really important to play Santa, you know. — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
You know who was wonderful to work with? Was Paul Gleason, may he rest in peace. — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Paul Gleason played the teacher. I just tortured him as best I could. 'Cause he wasn't one of the kids, you know,… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence. I thought that was going to… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
I was just in a few episodes the first season [ of Empire]. They didn't kill me, but I haven't been back… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
It was an audition process after Breakfast Club, and I wasn't really sure I wanted to do the movie. There was a… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
I think that there's room for everyone. I don't think that if one person succeeds then another must fail. That's lunacy. I'm… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
[St. Elmo's Fire] it was pretty soon after that. I know we didn't do Breakfast Club knowing we were going to do… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
I worked with the late Leonard Frey. I did a play, and I would have these ideas and he would say, "I… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Stagecoach is really my first Western-Western, the whole horses and gunplay. It was really fun. We shot it fast, too. We got… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Voice-over stuff is so much fun because you don't have hair and makeup and wardrobe. You get to show up. And there… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
You get the sense that [John] Hughes is so right about the way groups divide and then divide again and then sometimes… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
Just because you’ve only been alive for fifteen years doesn’t mean you’re less anything except old. That’s all it means. It doesn’t… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
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… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him. — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
I enjoyed [playing lawyer in From The Hip] as an ode to my dad. My dad went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, so… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
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… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that. — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
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… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high school I… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John [Hurt] is… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
[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… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
![“[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.” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/245/judd-nelson-4498_block_in-the-dark-backward-someone-who-has-wri_512485.jpg)
![“I was just in a few episodes the first season [ of Empire]. They didn't kill me, but I haven't been back in season two or three. I don't know if they have plans for me or not. But I enjoyed working on it. And I think it's a really talented group of actors and, boy, very enterprising to try and…” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1c2/judd-nelson-4498_actors_i-was-just-in-a-few-episodes-the-first-s_1611000.jpg)
![“It was an audition process after Breakfast Club, and I wasn't really sure I wanted to do the movie. There was a bigger role that Rob [Lowe] was already set to play, so the role they wanted me to audition for was Alec. [Director] Joel Schumacher... this is back in the days when you could trick me…” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/88a/judd-nelson-4498_auditions_it-was-an-audition-process-after-breakfa_1758140.jpg)
![“[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.” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bd3/judd-nelson-4498_breakfast_st-elmo-s-fire-it-was-pretty-soon-after_3059142.jpg)
![“You get the sense that [John] Hughes is so right about the way groups divide and then divide again and then sometimes align and then sometimes break apart. And this idea that Michael Hall's character says, "On Monday, are we going to be friends?" you know, based on this.” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/3de/judd-nelson-4498_break_you-get-the-sense-that-john-hughes-is-so_2859710.jpg)
![“[John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him.” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9e6/judd-nelson-4498_gifted_john-hurt-just-really-gifted-and-i-had-a_161327.jpg)
![“I enjoyed [playing lawyer in From The Hip] as an ode to my dad. My dad went to Harvard and Harvard Law School, so he had some friends that practiced in Boston. So, there was a big law firm that he hooked me up with the senior partner, then the senior partner hooked me up with a young lawyer who…” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e3f/judd-nelson-4498_attorney_i-enjoyed-playing-lawyer-in-from-the-hip_212963.jpg)
![“[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that.” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/498/judd-nelson-4498_directors_john-hughes-was-open-to-that-rehearsal-t_277010.jpg)
![“It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John [Hurt] is telling me the story as he's sitting in that witness chair, and they're putting the final touches of makeup on. And he goes, "Hold on a second," to stop his story…” quote by Judd Nelson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0ad/judd-nelson-4498_actors_it-s-like-they-talk-about-how-american-a_470630.jpg)