Lea Thompson Quotes

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Lea Thompson

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 31, 1961

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.

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My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.

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I hate when people don't hear the actual words out of your mouth or even the intent of it. They just hear something completely different.

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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.

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I'm always really excited to try something new in my profession that I haven't done yet.

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

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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.

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'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.

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'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.'

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

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'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.

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'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.

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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