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As A Kid, I Had A Crush On Sophia Loren And Raquel Welch.

Remember To Be As Smart As You Are.

Breakfast Club Was Great Because We Had A Real Rehearsal, And We Shot Primarily In Sequence. I Thought That Was Going To Be How Movies Were Done. I Didn't Really Know How Lucky We All Were. We Had A Director That Liked Actors. I Didn't Know That Was Going To Be Rare.

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]."

I Enjoyed [playing Lawyer In From The Hip] As An Ode To My Dad. My Dad Went To Harvard And Harvard Law School, So He Had Some Friends That Practiced In Boston. So, There Was A Big Law Firm That He Hooked Me Up With The Senior Partner, Then The Senior Partner Hooked Me Up With A Young Lawyer Who Worked In The Firm. And The Young Lawyer Was Married To A Public Defender. So I Would Hang Out With Them, And I Could See Both Sides Of It, Those That Are Corporate Attorneys And Those That Help The Poor And The Disenfranchised.