Quotes by Lea Thompson

About Lea Thompson:

Lea Thompson is an American actress, television director, and television producer. She is best known for her role as Lorraine Baines in the Back to the Future trilogy and as the title character in the 1990s NBC sitcom Caroline in the City. Other films she is known for include All the Right Moves, The Beverly Hillbillies, Howard the Duck, Jaws 3-D, Red Dawn, and Some Kind of Wonderful. Since 2011 she has co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family series Switched at Birth.
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Sitcoms are usually given short shrift by the acting profession, but it's quite an amazing job.

Lea Thompson

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.

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

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

Lea Thompson

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Lea Thompson

I play a lot of 'Scrabble' with my brother online.

Lea Thompson

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

Lea Thompson

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.

Lea Thompson

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

Lea Thompson

I was such a fan of Cyndi Lauper and her whole 'Girls Just Want to Have Fun' thing.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameLea Thompson
  • DescriptionAmerican actress of film and theatre, and director of several television series and made-for-TV movies
  • BornMay 31, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Ballet Dancer