I think I was, like, 23 or something [on The Breakfast Club]. I was the oldest of the five. Emilio [Estevez] and Ally [Sheedy] were a year younger. The only real difference was that Molly [ Ringwald] and Michael [Hall] still had to go to school. They could shoot, like, a half day. So a lot of my close coverage was done with Molly's stand-in, so Molly could do her schoolwork.

We tried the first evening to go down Division Street and Rush Street, but we couldn't get in anywhere because they didn't like [ Emilio Estevez] sneakers and they didn't like my boots. This was 1983 or '84, so it was ridiculous. We ended up at a jazz club, where you go downstairs and there's a very cool place.

When I was in college, all the pretty women were in the theatre, so I auditioned for a play.

As a kid, I had a crush on Sophia Loren and Raquel Welch.

While they would have provided financial support if I had needed it, the greatest support my parents gave was emotional, psychological.

Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man.

Breakfast Club was great because we had a real rehearsal, and we shot primarily in sequence.