Lea Thompson Quotes

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

  Lea Thompson

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

  Lea Thompson

• 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

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

  Lea Thompson

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Lea Thompson

• It’s actually shocking to me how hard it’s been to get back into the movie business.

  Lea Thompson

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

  Lea Thompson

• 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

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

  Lea Thompson

• I don’t even know how to swim!

  Lea Thompson

• 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

• 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

• And I definitely gravitate toward people who use laughter to pull themselves out of the abyss.

  Lea Thompson

Lea Thompson (16)

Birth:	31st May, 1961
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Director

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