I don't even know how to swim!

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.

He who becomes his most truthful self, becomes the leader for everyone else.

Love the itch and a cough cannot be hid.

Just remember, when you're with me you're not the strangest person in the room. Go ahead, get weird on me.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it.

Reagan is the Republican FDR, an exemplar of presidential greatness.

Presidents come and go. History comes and goes, but principles endure.

Love has always been the most important business in my life; I should say the only one.

Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.

Let us allow God to act; He brings things to completion when we least expect it.