Judd Nelson Biography

Even by the unexacting standard of Hollywood's 1980s "brat pack," actor Judd Nelson seemed wildly undisciplined and self-indulgent on screen. One tends to conclude that Nelson (a former philosophy student and the son of a Maine politician) has played his screen characters as written: he was, after all, very well trained by famed drama coach Stella Adler, and came up from the exacting ranks of summer stock. Among his earliest screen assignments -- all in his watershed year of 1985 -- including the dope-smoking detentionee in The Breakfast Club, Kevin Costner's parachute-jumping fraternity pal in Fandango, and Ally Sheedy's philandering live-in boyfriend in St. Elmo's Fire. Always seeming to be on the verge of punching someone out, Nelson was well cast as a mercurial killer in 1989's Relentless. Like many brat-packers, Judd Nelson has appeared in fewer and fewer films in the 1990s. In Tommy Chongs Far Out Man (1990), Nelson appears ingratiatingly as himself. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

• 1. Nathaniel Burke: Never underestimate your enemy and keep your gold out of sight. Eat the hotdog, don't be one.
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• 1. Allison Reynolds: You wanna know what I did to get in here... nothing! I had nothing better to do.
  2. John Bender: [to principal] Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?
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• 1. John Bender: Sushi? You won't accept a guy's tongue in your mouth but your going to eat that?
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• 1. John Bender: EAT... MY... SHORTS!
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• 1. Brian Johnson: Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was that we did wrong. What we did was wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us... in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions. You see us as a brain..
  2. Andrew Clark: ...and an athlete.
  3. Allison Reynolds: ...and a basket case.
  4. Claire Standish: ...a princess.
  5. John Bender: ...and a criminal.
  6. Brian Johnson: Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club.
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• 1. John Bender: I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights.
  2. Brian Johnson: You wear tights?
  3. Andrew Clark: No. I wear the required uniform.
  4. Brian Johnson: Tights.
  5. Andrew Clark: Shut up.
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• 1. Claire Standish: Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular. Everybody loves me so much at this school.
  2. John Bender: Poor baby.
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