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

- Lea Thompson

You're sexy when you're young. You've got it going on, and then you have your kids, and you give your whole life to your kids, and then they're kind of gone, and like, what do you do? You've got to fight to stay inspired, and you've got to fight to learn new things and stay young in your heart.

- Lea Thompson

I enjoy learning about the new technologies. I enjoy getting to know the new fans and dealing with them on their turf.

- 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

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

- Lea Thompson

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

- Lea Thompson

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

- Lea Thompson

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.

- Lea Thompson

Casual games are a great way to spend time when you get bored. It's hard to keep people off all their little games.

- Lea Thompson

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

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

- 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 had been a ballet dancer and never could make a living, and just being so excited that I got to, all of a sudden, live as an actor.

- 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

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

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

- Lea Thompson

'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.'

- Lea Thompson

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.

- Lea Thompson

I have to read something positive every single day. I have to have faith that the day is unfolding in a way that is going to be useful to somebody else... For me, living every day in gratitude has been profound for me.

- Lea Thompson