Judd Nelson
I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.Collection: Communication
I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.Collection: Sports
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.Collection: Dreams
My Brat Pack buddies and I didn't exactly handle celebrity very well. Success at an early age is far more difficult to handle than failure.Collection: Failure
With failure, you just try again.Collection: Failure
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 and funny any more.Collection: Funny
Remember to be as smart as you are.Collection: Intelligence
I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting.
It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life.
While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.
Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
I don't have any blindness when it comes to my money. As an actor, you can get distracted by your work. I do keep an eye on my nest egg, if you will.
You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out.
When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.
Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.
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.
I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.
It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.
As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.
Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life.
My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film.
All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.
I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free.
It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.
My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors.
My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.
I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler.
Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.
I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration.
I took all the philosophy courses I could.
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.
Death is not my best subject.
I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.
I have adopted clothes from all the projects I'm in. It's really been a while since I've bought anything myself.
I like the way the old Toyotas look.
A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.
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 environment they're in.
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 be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.
Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.Collection: Fall
Though [John] Hughes did provide for us, if we wanted, to go to a local high school and try to blend in. Michael [Hall] and Molly [Ringwald ] already had school to go to with their tutors. Ally [Sheedy] wanted nothing to do with high school. She said, "I remember it fine. I don't want to go back." Which is great. So Emilio [Estevez] and I went. And Emilio lasted a couple hours because people recognized him from The Outsiders that had already been out, so his cover was blown.Collection: Couple
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 mean you’re less experienced. It doesn’t mean you’re less intelligent. It doesn’t mean you’re less sensitive. It doesn’t mean you take things less seriously. It’s like, these are younger human beings, meaning don’t, because they’re only ten, start thinking that they don’t know what you’re talking about -because they do. Don’t leave people out in the cold, and don’t talk down to people -don’t. It never works out.Collection: Mean
We worked six days a week [on the The Breakfast Club], so you have one day off. So on that Saturday night, it's not like we could all go out and have a drink because Molly [Ringwald ] and Michael [Hall] weren't old enough. And Ally [Sheedy] pretty much kept to herself. So Emilio and I, every Saturday night, would go into Chicago because we were shooting outside of Chicago in Des Plaines. It's so funny, because even though we might be adversaries in the film, we certainly weren't off-camera. He's a very funny guy.Collection: Night
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."Collection: Mom
We [ with Emilio Estevez] asked if we could take some things [ in Breakfast Club] that weren't in the shooting draft, but from earlier drafts, "Can we maybe use this?" And Hughes was very amenable to all that. And there was some stuff that I liked, and I said, "How about this?" And he went, "Well, we'll check with Molly [Ringwald]. Those scenes are with her. And if she likes it, fine." So it was just wonderful. It was great.Collection: Use
Stagecoach is really my first Western-Western, the whole horses and gunplay. It was really fun. We shot it fast, too. We got lucky with the weather. If it rained, I don't know if we would have been able to finish it. We had like 12 shooting days for the whole thing.Collection: Horse
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 worked in the firm. And the young lawyer was married to a public defender. So I would hang out with them, and I could see both sides of it, those that are corporate attorneys and those that help the poor and the disenfranchised.Collection: Senior
I think I was, like, 23 or something [on The Breakfast Club]. I was the oldest of the five. Emilio [Estevez] and Ally [Sheedy] were a year younger. The only real difference was that Molly [ Ringwald] and Michael [Hall] still had to go to school. They could shoot, like, a half day. So a lot of my close coverage was done with Molly's stand-in, so Molly could do her schoolwork.Collection: Real
Fandango is not really a Western. It's really just set in Texas. It's a road picture. And then I did one that hasn't come out yet called Kreep, which is set in Texas, but it's not really a Western. But it has a more rural-Texas feel to it.Collection: Texas
I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fanCollection: Sports
Sweets, you couldn't ignore me if you tried.Collection: Sweet