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I Put Less Stock In Others' Opinions Than My Own. No One Else's Opinions Could Derail Me.

Remember To Be As Smart As You Are.

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]."

Ice-t Was Just A Pleasure To Work With. He Was A Smart Gentleman.

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.