90+ Judd Nelson Quotes On Breakfast Club, Service And Family

Judd Nelson is an American actor, best known for his roles in the films The Breakfast Club, St. Elmo's Fire, and New Jack City. He has also appeared in several television series, including Suddenly Susan, The Outer Limits, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He is also a voice actor, having provided the voice for Hot Rod in the 2007 film Transformers. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Judd Nelson on life, breakfast club, service.

Top 10 Judd Nelson Quotes

1. Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.
2. Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere.
3. It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do.
4. I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience.
5. Sweets, you couldn't ignore me if you tried.
6. 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.
7. Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do.
8. 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.
9. I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler
10. While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.

Judd Nelson Short Quotes

• When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.
• Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie.
• I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me.
• A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.
• As a kid, I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.
• Ice-T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman.
• My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.
• Paul Gleason he was a great guy. I loved working with him.
• Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.
• I like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.

Judd Nelson Quotes About Life

Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life. — Judd Nelson

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

Trace Adkins doesn't talk too much, but when he does he's got great stories. He's lived a great life. — Judd Nelson

Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man. — Judd Nelson

Judd Nelson Quotes About Breakfast Club

Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence. — Judd Nelson

[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. — Judd Nelson

As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It was really an empty room taped out with the same dimensions of the library. And they had the tables all there. And he had us sitting at the same table. All of us. — Judd Nelson

Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence. I thought that was going to be how movies were done. I didn't really know how lucky we all were. We had a director that liked actors. I didn't know that was going to be rare. — Judd Nelson

Judd Nelson Famous Quotes And Sayings

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 — Judd Nelson

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. — Judd Nelson

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. — Judd Nelson

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 not sure what the reasons are for my philosophy, maybe it's the fact that if there are ten people doing the same job, we all know how we feel and what our high points and low points are. — Judd Nelson

You know who was wonderful to work with? Was Paul Gleason, may he rest in peace. — Judd Nelson

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

We tried the first evening to go down Division Street and Rush Street, but we couldn't get in anywhere because they didn't like [ Emilio Estevez] sneakers and they didn't like my boots. This was 1983 or '84, so it was ridiculous. We ended up at a jazz club, where you go downstairs and there's a very cool place. — Judd Nelson

I worked with the late Leonard Frey. I did a play, and I would have these ideas and he would say, "I don't know. Try it." And I would try it and it would be awful, and he would go, "What do you think?" And I would go, "It was awful." And he goes, "Okay, we'll try something else." And that's great because it really makes you feel less working-for and more working-with. There's nothing better than to feel a part of the team. — Judd Nelson

Trace Adkins is such a great guy. Really is. And he's got that incredible voice - low, deep. He throws words around like "my dental coverage." — Judd Nelson

I got offered to do Ben 10. Sue Blu was the [voice] director of that, and I had worked with her - I think she was on Transformers as well. And she was so great. — Judd Nelson

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 shoot those every week, you know, with musical numbers and all that stuff. — Judd Nelson

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. Really hardworking. And I knew that if she was the star of the show, it's going to be a good experience. And it was. — Judd Nelson

You have to be so confident and so gifted to fill five minutes of nothing at the very beginning of a play before even a word is uttered. — Judd Nelson

You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal. — Judd Nelson

I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free. — Judd Nelson

[Kevin] Costner said, "You don't have to do that... this is a wide shot, so you can calm down." — Judd Nelson

I went to acting school with Mario Van Peebles. For a little while, he was at the same school. So he asked me if I wanted to do [ New Jack City]. He said, "There's not really a role. We'll figure something out. But would you like to?" And I was like, "Sure." 'Cause he said it was Chris Rock and Ice T's first movie. — Judd Nelson

I went and saw him [ John Hurt ] here in L.A.He did a one-man Beckett show of Krapp's Last Tape. I went back and saw him afterwards, and what an actor he is. He is so gifted. — Judd Nelson

In a good script, it's really like a treasure map. You just focus on that, all the answers are pretty much in it. — Judd Nelson

I got to play Santa, too. It's really important to play Santa, you know. — Judd Nelson

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. — Judd Nelson

I like the way the old Toyotas look. — Judd Nelson

[John] Hughes was open to that [rehearsal]. This can only happen if the director and/or the writer are open to that. — Judd Nelson

John Hurt was incredible to work with. — Judd Nelson

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. — Judd Nelson

Paul Gleason played the teacher. I just tortured him as best I could. 'Cause he wasn't one of the kids, you know, so it was okay. He was great. — Judd Nelson

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 went to was a private school. It was prep school. It was a boarding school. So we didn't have a shop class. We didn't have Saturday detention. We went to school on Saturday. We did have Sunday study, which you very rarely get, because then you have 13 straight days of school. Who wants that? — Judd Nelson

Kim Coates is really funny. He's a blast. If you have to get beaten up and tortured, he's a good guy to get tortured by. — Judd Nelson

There was no one really like John Bender at my high school. — Judd Nelson

[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

[John] Hughes was well aware that to ignore the seriousness of young people is to encourage things like Columbine, so you might want to listen. And we were all pretty serious, a little bit, in high school. Some a little more than others. — Judd Nelson

The Dark Backward. Bill Paxton is in it with me. Wayne Newton. James Caan. Adam Rifkin wrote and directed it. It was made a number of years ago and very odd. Not for the squeamish. — Judd Nelson

Phil Hicks was the guy that was in the ROTC, that was going to go into the Vietnam War and thought that was the responsibility of the citizen. — Judd Nelson

I wasn't Santa in Santa Jr., but I was Santa in Cancel Christmas. — Judd Nelson

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. — Judd Nelson

It's strange, 'cause a play, you start at the beginning and you go all the way through to the end. So it's naturally very well rehearsed and you get a rhythm and a flow. In film, you can shoot the ending before the beginning. It's very odd. And it's like a craft you have to learn. — Judd Nelson

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. — Judd Nelson

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." — Judd Nelson

I did a Moonlighting episode because I was friends with Whoopi [Goldberg, who guest-starred in the same episode], and she asked me to do it and I did it. But yeah, that was my first regular on a series, and it's because I'd met Brooke Shields a number of years earlier at a charity event. — Judd Nelson

Death is not my best subject. — Judd Nelson

Santa Jr. I was a cop. Yes, I was officially Santa. But a younger Santa. He goes young, clean-shaven, to how we imagine Santa with all the white hair and beard and "Ho ho ho." Kind of funny. — Judd Nelson

I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible. — Judd Nelson

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

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. — Judd Nelson

[John] Hughes really wanted it to sound authentic. He was a real collaborator. He encouraged us to bring to the material things we thought were maybe more truthful. — Judd Nelson

Remember to be as smart as you are. — Judd Nelson

I was trained by Stella Adler for theater so you kind of give it all on every take. — Judd Nelson

I remember Emilio [Estevez] and I were at John's house during the rehearsal process. And John [Huges] had mentioned he wrote the first draft of Breakfast Club in a weekend. And we both at the same time went, "First draft? How many do you have?" And John said he's got four other drafts. And we go, "Can we read them?" And for the next three hours, Emilio and I read those other four drafts. — Judd Nelson

[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. — Judd Nelson

My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors — Judd Nelson

It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded. — Judd Nelson

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

I took all the philosophy courses I could. — Judd Nelson

[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. — Judd Nelson

Part of the reason I thought that I might do a series is, my dad has pretty much been on the same road to work for years and years. And it's like, "Could I do something like that? Am I so independent that I can't punch the clock at the same place?" So part of it was a kind of exercise. "Can I be responsible in this way?" And lo and behold, I could. Luckily. It'd be bad if I couldn't. — Judd Nelson

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 that." — Judd Nelson

With failure, you just try again. — Judd Nelson

I wanted to meet Orson Welles. So I was like, whatever, somehow get me in on this. I'm able to get cast in it, but Orson Welles worked alone. He worked before all of us worked. He didn't want to work with anyone else. — Judd Nelson

I had to audition for Fandango. When I read the script, the role that was interesting - so everyone thought - was the role that Costner played. He was the cool guy. And I read the script, and my representation at the time said, "That's the role you should read for." And I was like, "Really? How about I read for this other role." And they went, "Well, you're not going to get that role." — Judd Nelson

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. — Judd Nelson

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. — Judd Nelson

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. — Judd Nelson

Life Lessons by Judd Nelson

1. Judd Nelson's career is a testament to the power of hard work and dedication, as he has worked consistently throughout his career to stay in the public eye.
2. His willingness to take risks and try new things has allowed him to explore a variety of roles and genres, showing that it is possible to have a successful career without sticking to one type of role.
3. His success is also a reminder that it is important to stay true to yourself and your values, as he has been open about his personal beliefs and has not shied away from expressing them.