Quotes from Lea Thompson

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.

Cyndi Lauper's 'Time After Time' was a perfect song. It was so beautiful and so heartfelt. Her vocals were so amazing. And, for me, that was a song I went to when I was feeling sad and wanted to feel even sadder.

Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.

I had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.

I think it's really hard to understand the depths and the power of the love that someone has for their children unless you really have children.

One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!

'Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.

My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.

I'm not overweight, but I'm not in shape at all. I do not work out.

I was such a fan of Cyndi Lauper and her whole 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' thing.

'Howard The Duck' has a lot of fans, and usually when they come up to me, I just think they're the coolest. Because it takes a lot of strength, a lot of perseverance to love 'Howard the Duck.'

My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'

I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.

'Caroline In The City' was such an interesting thing, because I'd never been on the set of a sitcom or even auditioned for a sitcom when they gave me that part.

Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.

Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

You're sexy when you're young. You've got it going on, and then you have your kids, and you give your whole life to your kids, and then they're kind of gone, and like, what do you do? You've got to fight to stay inspired, and you've got to fight to learn new things and stay young in your heart.

Of course, I'd like to produce and direct a blockbuster, but you gotta build up to that. So now I'm learning from a bunch of little movies. And it's more fun with smaller pictures. It's more creative.

It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.