"Young alienation, disappointment and heartache is all a part of the first real growing up that we do."
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"I love the rehearsal process in the theatre, and the visceral sense of contact and communication with a live audience."
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"I went to acting school in New York City for two years. I studied with Stella Adler"
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"Ice-T was just a pleasure to work with. He was a smart gentleman."
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"Alien's a great one. That's a scary movie."
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"A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time."
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"As a kid, I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch."
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"While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological."
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"When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play."
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"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."
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"My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner."
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"[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."
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"My first love is acting on stage. A sitcom is a hybrid of stage and film."
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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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"I am very grateful to make my living doing what I would do for free."
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"It is a career of make-believe, of masks. We all have masks in life."
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"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."
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"I like the way the old Toyotas look."
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"Death is not my best subject."
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"I play a garbage man who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. Terrible."
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