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