Judd Nelson
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Birthplace:
Portland, Maine, USA
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 spent the 1990s transitioning into his career as an adult, but he hit his stride by 1996, when he joined the cast of the hit sitcom Suddenly Susan. In the years to come, Nelson would remain a consistent force on screen, appearing in movies like Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and Grizzley Flats.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
| RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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| No Score Yet | Girl in the Basement |
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— | 2021 |
| No Score Yet | Electric Jesus |
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— | 2020 |
| No Score Yet | Iceland Is Best |
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— | 2020 |
| 17% | Dead Water |
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— | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | Santa Fake |
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— | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | Dauntless: The Battle of Midway |
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— | 2019 |
| No Score Yet | Santa Fake |
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— | 2019 |
| 7% | Billionaire Boys Club |
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— | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | 1/1 |
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— | 2018 |
| No Score Yet | From Straight A's to XXX |
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— | 2017 |
| No Score Yet | Stagecoach: The Texas Jack Story |
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— | 2016 |
| No Score Yet | The Bandit Hound |
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— | 2016 |
| 44% | This Is Happening |
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— | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | Private Number |
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— | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | When Duty Calls |
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— | 2015 |
| No Score Yet | Road to the Open |
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— | 2014 |
| 60% | Down And Dangerous |
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— | 2014 |
| 61% | Nurse |
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— | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | Haunting Of The Innocent |
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— | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | Bigfoot Wars |
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— | 2014 |
| No Score Yet | Last Chance Holiday (Kristin's Christmas Past) |
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— | 2013 |
| 44% | Bad Kids Go to Hell |
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— | 2012 |
| 18% | Just 45 Minutes From Broadway |
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$89.1k | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Rock 'n' Roll Hotel |
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— | 2012 |
| No Score Yet | Mayor Cupcake |
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— | 2011 |
| No Score Yet | Cancel Christmas |
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— | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | The Terror Experiment (Fight or Flight) |
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— | 2010 |
| No Score Yet | Endure |
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— | 2010 |
| 23% | The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day |
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$10.2M | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | Don't You Forget About Me |
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— | 2009 |
| No Score Yet | The Day the Earth Stopped |
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— | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Infected (They're Among Us) |
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— | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | The Caretaker |
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— | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Little Hercules |
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— | 2008 |
| No Score Yet | Nevermore |
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— | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Netherbeast Incorporated |
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— | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | The Kidnapping (Black Friday) |
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— | 2007 |
| No Score Yet | Black Hole |
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— | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Little Hercules in 3-D |
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— | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | National Lampoon's TV: The Movie |
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— | 2006 |
| No Score Yet | Three Wise Guys |
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— | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | The Lost Angel |
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— | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | Lethal Eviction |
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— | 2005 |
| No Score Yet | The Freediver |
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— | 2004 |
| No Score Yet | White Rush |
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— | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | Cybermutt |
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— | 2003 |
| No Score Yet | Santa, Jr. |
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— | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Lost Voyage |
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— | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Deceived |
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— | 2002 |
| No Score Yet | Dark Asylum |
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— | 2001 |
| 53% | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back |
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$29.9M | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | Return to Cabin by the Lake |
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— | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | Strange Frequency |
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— | 2001 |
| No Score Yet | The New Adventures of Spin and Marty: Suspect Behavior |
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— | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | Spiral Staircase |
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— | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | Cabin by the Lake |
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— | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | Sex and Bullets |
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— | 2000 |
| No Score Yet | Falcon Down |
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— | 2000 |
| 39% | Light It Up |
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— | 1999 |
| No Score Yet | Mr. Rock 'n Roll: The Alan Freed Story |
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— | 1999 |
| 12% | Steel |
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— | 1997 |
| No Score Yet | Blackwater Trail |
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— | 1995 |
| No Score Yet | Circumstances Unknown |
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— | 1995 |
| 25% | Airheads |
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— | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | Blindfold: Acts of Obsession |
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— | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | Hail Caesar |
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— | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | Flinch |
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— | 1994 |
| No Score Yet | Every Breath |
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— | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Entangled |
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— | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Harley-Davidson: The American Motorcycle |
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— | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Caroline at Midnight |
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— | 1993 |
| No Score Yet | Primary Motive |
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— | 1992 |
| No Score Yet | Conflict Of Interest |
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— | 1992 |
| 45% | The Dark Backward |
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— | 1991 |
| 77% | New Jack City |
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— | 1991 |
| No Score Yet | Hiroshima: Out of the Ashes |
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— | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | Far Out Man |
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— | 1990 |
| 33% | Relentless |
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— | 1989 |
| No Score Yet | Never on Tuesday |
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— | 1988 |
| No Score Yet | Billionaire Boys Club |
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— | 1987 |
| 27% | From the Hip |
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— | 1987 |
| 100% | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam |
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— | 1987 |
| 62% | The Transformers - The Movie |
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— | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | Blue City |
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— | 1986 |
| No Score Yet | Shattered: If Your Kid's on Drugs |
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— | 1986 |
| 89% | The Breakfast Club |
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— | 1985 |
| 50% | Fandango |
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— | 1985 |
| 43% | St. Elmo's Fire |
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— | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | Making the Grade |
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— | 1984 |
TV
| RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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| 84% |
Empire
2015-2020
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| No Score Yet |
The View
1997-2020
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| 40% |
Heartbreakers
2014
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| 85% |
Nikita
2010-2013
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| 31% |
The Neighbors
2012-2014
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| 65% |
Two and a Half Men
2003-2015
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| 89% |
Psych
2006-2014
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| 35% |
Eleventh Hour
2008-2009
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| No Score Yet |
CSI: NY
2004-2013
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| No Score Yet |
Las Vegas
2003-2008
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| No Score Yet |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-2015
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| No Score Yet |
Hometime
2011-2015
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| No Score Yet |
The Outer Limits
1995-2002
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| No Score Yet |
Suddenly Susan
1996-2000
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| 82% |
Tales from the Crypt
1989-1996
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| 89% |
Moonlighting
1985-1989
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Quotes from Judd Nelson's Characters
| Richard Vernon: | What if your home, your family... What if your dope was on fire? |
| John Bender: | Impossible, sir. It's in Johnson's underwear. |
| Brian Johnson: | You know, there's not supposed to be any monkey business. |
| John Bender: | Young man, have you finished your paper? |
| John Bender: | Well, I don't know any lepers either, but I'm not gonna run out and join one of their fucking clubs. |
| Officer Nick Peretti: | Behind Door No. 1, your head explodes like a melon! |
| Scotty Appleton: | Behind door No. 2, you hook us up with Gee Money and get the prize, Nino Brown. |
| Scotty Appleton: | You know, a drug dealer is the worst kind of brother. He won't sell it to his sister, he won't sell it to his mother. But he'll sell it to one of his boys in the street. I don't know about you, but I'm ready to kill Nino Brown. Are you with me? |
| Officer Nick Peretti: | I'm ahead of you. |
| Officer Nick Peretti: | Drugs ain't a black thing, or a white thing. It's a death thing. Death don't give a shit about color. |
| Andrew Clark: | If I lose my temper you're totalled man |
| Andrew Clark: | If I lose my temper, you're totaled man. |
| John Bender: | Totally? |
| Andrew Clark: | Totally. |
| Allison Reynolds: | When you grow up... your heart dies. |
| John Bender: | Who cares? |
| Allison Reynolds: | I care. |
| John Bender: | I wanna be an airborne ranger! |
| Andrew Clark: | [John Bender is tearing up books] That's really intelligent. |
| Andrew Clark: | That's really intelligent. |
| John Bender: | You're right. It's wrong to literature. It's such fun to read. And [examines title] Moe-Lay really pumps my nads. |
| John Bender: | You're right. It's wrong to literature. It's such fun to read. And Moe-Lay really pumps my nads. |
| Claire Standish: | Moliere. |
| John Bender: | [pointing to Claire's lunch] What's that? |
| John Bender: | What's that? |
| Claire Standish: | Sushi. |
| John Bender: | Sushi? |
| Claire Standish: | Rice, raw fish and seaweed. |
| John Bender: | You won't accept a guy's tongue in your mouth, and you're going to eat that? |
| Claire Standish: | Can i eat? |
| John Bender: | I don't know. Give it a try. |
| John Bender: | [after putting his heads between Claire's legs under the table] It was an accident. |
| John Bender: | It was an accident. |
| Claire Standish: | You're an asshole. |
| John Bender: | Sue me. |
| John Bender: | Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place. |
| John Bender: | You know what I got for Christmas this year? It was a banner fuckin' year at the old Bender family. I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said "Hey. Smoke up Johnny." |
| Brian Johnson: | I'm a fucking idiot because I can't make a lamp? |
| John Bender: | No. You're a genius because you can't make a lamp. |
| John Bender: | Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe? |
| John Bender: | You know how you said before, how your parents use you to get back at each other? Wouldn't I be outstanding in that capacity? |
| Claire Standish: | Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular. Everybody loves me so much at this school. |
| John Bender: | Poor baby. |
| Andrew Clark: | Why do you have to insult everybody? |
| John Bender: | I'm being honest, asshole. I would expect you to know the difference. |
| John Bender: | So you just stick to the things you know. Shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW & your poor, rich drunk mother in Caribbean! |
| John Bender: | So you just stick to the things you know. Shopping, nail polish, your father's BMW and your poor, rich, drunk mother in the Caribbean! |
| Claire Standish: | SHUT UP! |
| Claire Standish: | Shut up! |
| John Bender: | Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe? |
| John Bender: | God! You're so pathetic. Don't you ever, *ever* compare yourself to me, okay. You got everything, and I got shit. Fuckin' Repunzel, right? School would probably, fuckin' shut down if you didn't show up. Queenie, isn't here. I like those earrings, Claire. |
| John Bender: | I mean even if he had a nice personality and a cool car... although you'd probably have to ride in the back seat because his nuts would ride shotgun |
| John Bender: | I mean even if he had a nice personality and a cool car... although you'd probably have to ride in the back seat because his nuts would ride shotgun. |
| John Bender: | Claire, you wanna see a picture of a guy with elephantitis of the nuts? It's pretty tasty. |
| Claire Standish: | Why didn't you want me to know that you are a virgin? |
| Brian Johnson: | Because it's my business - my personal business. |
| John Bender: | Well, Brian, it doesn't sound like you're doing any business. |
| John Bender: | I'll bet he bought those for you. I bet those were a Christmas gift. You know what I got for Christmas? Oh, it was a banner fucking year at the old Bender family. I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said, "Hey, smoke up Johnny." Alright? So go home and cry to your Daddy. Don't cry here, okay? |
| John Bender: | I'll bet he bought those for you. I bet those were a Christmas gift. You know what I got for Christmas? Oh, it was a banner fucking year at the old Bender family. I got a carton of cigarettes. The old man grabbed me and said, 'Hey, smoke up Johnny.' Alright? So go home and cry to your Daddy. Don't cry here, okay? |
| Claire Standish: | Claire. It's a family name. |
| John Bender: | Oh, it's a fat girl's name. |
| John Bender: | Uh, Dick? Excuse me; Rich. Will milk be made available to us? |
| John Bender: | I wanna be just like you. I figure all I need, is a lobotomy and some tights. |
| John Bender: | Well, Brian, this is a very nutritious lunch. All the food groups are represented. Did your mom marry Mr. Rogers? |
| Brian Johnson: | Uh, no. Mr. Johnson. |
| John Bender: | Remember how you said your parents use you to get back at each other? |
| Claire Standish: | [nods] |
| John Bender: | Wouldn't I be OUTSTANDING in that capacity? |
| Brian Johnson: | When you pull the trunk, the light was supposed to come on and mine...well...didn't turn on. |
| John Bender: | Fucking idiot |
| John Bender: | Fucking idiot. |
| Brian Johnson: | I'm a fucking idiot because I can't make a lamp? |
| John Bender: | No, you're a GENIUS because you can't make a lamp! |
| Richard Vernon: | Why did that door close? |
| Claire Standish: | I think the screw fell out, sir. |
| Richard Vernon: | Who took the screw? Bender, where's the screw? |
| John Bender: | I don't have it, sir |
| Richard Vernon: | Don't lie to me! |
| John Bender: | I'm not lying! Screws fall out, the world is an imperfect place! |
| John Bender: | Hey, Sporto! Do you get along with YOUR parents? |
| Andrew Clark: | If I say yes, then I'm an idiot, right? |
| John Bender: | You're an idiot anyway! But if you say that you get along with your parents, then you're a liar too. |
| Andrew Clark: | Speak for yourself. |
| John Bender: | You really think I'd speak for you? I don't even know your language! |
| Richard Vernon: | Any questions? |
| John Bender: | Yeah, I got a question. Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe? |
| Brian Johnson: | Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong. What we did *was* wrong. But we think you're crazy to make an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us... In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain... |
| Andrew Clark: | ...and an athlete... |
| Allison Reynolds: | ...and a basket case... |
| Claire Standish: | ...a princess... |
| John Bender: | ...and a criminal... |
| Brian Johnson: | Does that answer your question?... Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club. |
| Officer Nick Peretti: | " Excuse me, is this some kind of black thing?" |
| Officer Nick Peretti: | Excuse me, is this some kind of black thing? |
| John Bender: | You know, I don't think that I need to hang with you fuckin' dildos anymore. |
| Nathaniel Burke: | Never underestimate your enemy and keep your gold out of sight. Eat the hotdog, don't be one. |
| Allison Reynolds: | you wanna know what i did to get in here... nothing! i had nothing better to do |
| Allison Reynolds: | You wanna know what I did to get in here... nothing! I had nothing better to do. |
| John Bender: | (to principal) does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe? |
| John Bender: | [to principal] Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe? |
| John Bender: | Sushi? You won't accept a guy's tongue in your mouth but your going to eat that? |
| John Bender: | EAT...MY...SHORTS!!! |
| John Bender: | EAT... MY... SHORTS! |
| Brian Johnson: | We accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole saturday for whatever we did wrong, but we think you're crazy to make us write an essay telling you who we think we are. You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms, the most convenient definitions but what we found out that each one of us is a brain... |
| 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.. |
| Andrew Clark: | ...and an athlete... |
| Andrew Clark: | ...and an athlete. |
| Allison Reynolds: | ...and a basketcase... |
| Allison Reynolds: | ...and a basket case. |
| Claire Standish: | ...a princess... |
| Claire Standish: | ...a princess. |
| John Bender: | ...and a criminal. |
| Brian Johnson: | Does that answer your question? Sincerely yours, the Breakfast Club. |
| John Bender: | I figure all I need is a lobotomy and some tights. |
| Brian Johnson: | You wear tights? |
| Andrew Clark: | No. I wear the required uniform. |
| Brian Johnson: | Tights. |
| Andrew Clark: | Shut up. |
| Claire Standish: | Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular. Everybody loves me so much at this school. |
| John Bender: | Poor baby. |