Lea Thompson Quotes
'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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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I suddenly realized that comedy, for me, was just being honest, and playing it for real. I've seen so many wonderful actors who turn into creatures from another planet when they're told they are supposed to be playing comedy.
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
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One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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I don't ever remember not praying. Bedtime prayers, the rosary, praying for friends, relatives, for the sick and for those who had died. It was a natural part of our lives.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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I fought well at 155, but I don't think I ever came close to my best at 155. I think I'll get to my best at 170 pounds.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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I don't give interviews on Chanel because it is not useful for the Chanel business.
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I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.
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I always had really long swimmer's arms. The last to totally go is always my thighs and butt, but my old body is there somewhere.
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If Washington were a factory, it would manufacture spending.
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A manager doesn't hear the cheers.
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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.
