Lea Thompson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.
-- Lea Thompson

#Doors #Acting #Way
As a mother, anyone who has a teenager can attest to being really excited when they have something positive to be putting their energy into. They have so much energy, and it can go in the wrong direction.
-- Lea Thompson

#Mother #Teenager #Being Real
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.
-- Lea Thompson

#Mother #Kids #Self Worth
So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.
-- Lea Thompson

#Thinking #Play #Careers
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.
-- Lea Thompson

#Fun #Creative #Littles
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.
-- Lea Thompson

#Cities #Interesting #Sitcom
Usually, you don't really end up lifelong buddies with your co-stars.
-- Lea Thompson

#Stars #Ends #Lifelong
The whole experience of doing a sitcom is... Telling jokes with such precision is really exciting, but it's also terrifying.
-- Lea Thompson

#Precision #Exciting #Sitcom
Red Dawn' was very resonant with a lot of people - they love that movie. I always thought it was a little hysterical.
-- Lea Thompson

#People #Dawn #Littles
One thing the futurists never get right, though, is that the extreme desire for polyester only lasted a brief period in the '70s!
-- Lea Thompson

#Desire #Periods #Extremes
It's actually shocking to me how hard it's been to get back into the movie business.
-- Lea Thompson

#Movie Business
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.
-- Lea Thompson

#Children #Thinking #Depth
I love really crappy carnivals, where you think the ride is going to break. There's something so seedy about them.
-- Lea Thompson

#Thinking #Break #Carnivals
I don't even know how to swim!
-- Lea Thompson

#Swim
Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.
-- Lea Thompson

#Children #Mean #Land
It's hard not to want to strangle people when you work with them for four years.
-- Lea Thompson

#Years #People #Four
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.
-- Lea Thompson

#Horse #Fun #Gun
Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.
-- Lea Thompson

#Training #Age
And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.
-- Lea Thompson

#Laughter #People #Use
In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
-- Lea Thompson

#Sarcastic #Sadness #Being Sarcastic

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