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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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  Directors, Rehearsal, Happens

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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 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.

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  School, Empty Rooms, Space

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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 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.

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  Weekend, House, Three

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• [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.

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  Block, Dark, Lakes

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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 try and keep busy.

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  Thinking, Trying, Degrees

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• I like Chicago. It's a great city. It's always fun to revisit it.

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  Fun, Cities, Chicago

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• 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.

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  Doe, Way, Good Things

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• It's a profession where merit is not necessarily rewarded.

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  Merit, Profession

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• I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible.

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  Men, Play, Comedian

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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 like "my dental coverage."

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  Voice, Guy, Dental

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• I wasn't Santa in Santa Jr., but I was Santa in Cancel Christmas.

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  Santa

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• 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.

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  Hair, White, Santa

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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 in it, but Orson Welles worked alone. He worked before all of us worked. He didn't want to work with anyone else.

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  Want, Able, Casts

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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 that Orson Welles was doing a voice on it.

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  Years, Voice, Firsts

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• 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?

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  School, Sunday, Class

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• It's more like the inner workings of John Bender. He feels like he's been given a short shrift, he's not been provided the opportunities that maybe these other kids have. So he feels like he begins in a hole. And instead of trying to raise himself up, he wants to bring all of them down. That's a dynamic that's pretty universal. And so that was the real foothold on that. It wasn't like, "Oh, my high school experience is like John Bender's [in St. Elmo's Fire]."

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  Real, School, Kids

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• 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.

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  Monday, Character, Ideas

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• 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.

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  Teacher, Kids, Causes

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• Paul Gleason he was a great guy. I loved working with him.

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  Guy, Great Guy

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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 good case weren't dramatic at all. Lawyers that had a horrible case would sing and dance and do whatever it took to convince the jury or the judge that this guy was innocent. So that was a cool thing to see because that made me believe that what the script [of From The Hip] was doing was totally believable. Now, maybe not ordinary. But it could happen.

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  Believe, Boston, Judging

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• John Hurt was incredible to work with.

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  Hurt, Incredibles

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• It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John [Hurt] is telling me the story as he's sitting in that witness chair, and they're putting the final touches of makeup on. And he goes, "Hold on a second," to stop his story so he can do the take. And he does this incredible take. They go, "Cut." And then immediately John goes, "Anyways, so Alec, he's playing the chess." And I'm just going, "Holy crap." You get whiplash from those kinds of quick turns!

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  Hurt, Cutting, Makeup

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• [John Hurt] just really gifted, and I had a great time working with him and [am] very lucky to have worked with him.

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  Hurt, Lucky, Had A Great Time

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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 went back and saw him afterwards, and what an actor he is. He is so gifted.

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  Hurt, Men, Tape

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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. 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.

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  Stars, Smart, Thinking

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