Judd Nelson Quotes
"I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Acting, School, Years)
"While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Financial, Parents, Support)
"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."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Age, Success, Failure, Celebrity)
"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."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Actors, Artists, Causes, Children, Driving, Environment, Help)
"It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Life, Career)
"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."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Business, Control, Want)
"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."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: People, Entertainment)
"My closest friend is canine. I have precious few close friends, and most of them are not actors."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Friend, Actors, Friends)
"My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Love, Acting, Film, First, First love)
"My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Acting, First, Job)
"Remember to be as smart as you are."
- Judd Nelson
"I put less stock in others' opinions than my own. No one else's opinions could derail me."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Opinions)
"When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Women, College, Play, Pretty, Theatre)
"Ice T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Work, Gentleman, Pleasure)
"With failure, you just try again."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Failure)
"You can be knocked down, but it doesn't mean you're out."
- Judd Nelson
"Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Alienation, Disappointment, First, Growing up)
"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
(Related: Music, Day, Effect, Hearing, Ocean)
"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."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Thought, People, America, Obvious, Will)
"I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Love, Communication, Sense, Theatre)
"A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Time, Fancy, Right)
"All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Work)
"Almost anything makes me laugh, especially jokes at my own expense. And I will never, ever admit to being ticklish anywhere."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Being, Jokes, Will)
"As a kid I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch."
- Judd Nelson
"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."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Dreams, Idea, Being)
"It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Work, People, Job)
"Heroes always make the right decision; I find that seldom happens in my life."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Life, Decision, Heroes, Right)
"I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Living)
"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."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Money, Work, Actor, Blindness, Eye, Will)
"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."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: People, Country)
"I find it very difficult to relax. I find it increasingly difficult to find outlets for my frustration."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Frustration, Relax)
"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
(Related: Clothes, Projects)
"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
(Related: Funny, Light, Suicide)
"I like being a villain. Villains are more exciting."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Being)
"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
(Related: Sports, Actor, Doubt, World)
"I like the way the old Toyotas look."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Old)
"Death is not my best subject."
- Judd Nelson
(Related: Death)