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.

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.

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

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.'

So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.

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

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