My kids can't watch ('Howard the Duck'). By the time I get in bed with the duck, they are, like, 'Turn it off, mom. You in bed with a duck is just pretty much a deal breaker.'

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Very good in the Back to the Future movies, but was born to play Caroline in the City.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

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.

I only grow hair in places that men like.

Life cannot be in existence without time

When life gives you lemons ask it for sugar and water too. Otherwise your final product would be some acidic lemon juice!

In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.

If people tell me something is impossible, I just want to prove that. I want to know that that's for certain. I don't want to not do something because someone says I can't.

The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.

When you're skiing, if you're not falling you're not trying.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Danger will wink on opportunity.

I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age

The more you study the course, the more you appreciate what a great test it is.