Lea Thompson

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

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

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

“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.”

“I mostly played 'Pac-Man', but I played 'The Sims' with my kids when they were growing up.”

“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.”

“As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-looking, so if you're thinking mean thoughts, you look doubly mean when you get older. You can't hide it.”

“בחלקי העצבות הכי עמוקים שלי, אני תמיד מתבדחת או מתנהלת בסרקזם.”

“אני מגדלת שיער רק במקומות שגברים אוהבים.”

“זה היה הסרט הראשון שלי אי פעם, אבל שיקרתי ואמרתי שעשיתי כבר כמה סרטים אחרים, כך שכאשר הגעתי לראשונה [לסט הצילומים], באמת לא ידעתי דבר וחצי דבר. כמו כן, אמרתי שאני יודעת לעשות סקי מים. ואני לא. היו לי חמישה ימים ללמוד לפעלולי סקי מים ממש ממש מסובכים, כי הייתי צריכה להשתלב במופע סקי מים של 'עולם המים'. ואני אפילו לא יודעת איך לשחות!" ~ על הופעתה בסרט "מלתעות 3”

“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.”

“'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.”

“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.'”

“I always felt like my best years would be from 50 to 65 years old. I don't know why. It was a feeling I had even when I was really young.”

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

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

“I don't like a class system. I don't like the idea of being in a different class than other people.”

“'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.”

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