Judd Nelson

Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do

— Judd Nelson

It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life

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I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself

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Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

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I just couldn't go back to Suddenly Susan after David Strickland's suicide. I didn't see how we could make the show light…

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It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real…

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My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to…

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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…

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Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.

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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 don't know if it matters what country you're from, size of the city you're from, urban or rural, there are people…

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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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[John] Hughes was well aware that to ignore the seriousness of young people is to encourage things like Columbine, so you might…

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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…

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I still think Brooke Shields is aces. She's really smart, interesting, doesn't feel that her time is more valuable than anyone else's.…

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As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It…

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I had to audition for Fandango. When I read the script, the role that was interesting - so everyone thought - was…

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Stagecoach is really my first Western-Western, the whole horses and gunplay. It was really fun. We shot it fast, too. We got…

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I would go to trials a lot in Boston, as best I could. And it's incredible that, like, lawyers that had a…

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I remember Emilio [Estevez] and I were at John's house during the rehearsal process. And John [Huges] had mentioned he wrote the…

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Trace Adkins is such a great guy. Really is. And he's got that incredible voice - low, deep. He throws words around…

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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…

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It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are…

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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…

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I went and saw him [ John Hurt ] here in L.A.He did a one-man Beckett show of Krapp's Last Tape. I…

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