Lea Thompson Biography
Lea Katherine Thompson (born May 31, 1961) is an American actress, singer, dancer, and director. She is best known for her roles as Lorraine Baines-McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990), Beverly Switzler in Howard the Duck (1986), and Amanda Jones in Some Kind of Wonderful (1987). Other films for which she is known include All the Right Moves (1983), Red Dawn (1984), Dennis the Menace (1993), and The Beverly Hillbillies (1993).
In the 1990s, she played the title character in the sitcom Caroline in the City. From 2011 to 2017, she co-starred as Kathryn Kennish in the ABC Family-turned-Freeform series Switched at Birth.
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Confrontation of Personal Responsibility and Consequences
Hardy Jenns:
Look, I'm perfectly willing to forget this. Okay? I see no reason in carrying this on any longer. It was a joke. It's gone too far. It's over. Okay?
Keith Nelson: [turns to leave]
You want the truth? You want the plain truth? You're over.
Amanda Jones:
Are you just gonna leave?
Keith:
There isn't anything I could do to him that he hasn't already done to himself.
Jones: [comes up to Hardy; smiles at Hardy and slaps him... and slaps him again]
I wish I could live with that.
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Choosing Independence Over Companionship
Amanda Jones: [notices that Watts has feelings for Keith after she walks off; removes earrings; gives earrings to Keith; Keith kisses a smiling Amanda on the cheeks before going]
Remember how I said I'd rather be with someone for the wrong reasons than alone for the right ones? I'd rather be right. It's gonna feel good to stand on my own. Here. In your heart you wanted to give these to somebody else. Go. Go on.
Quotes sourced from Wikiquote (© Wikiquote contributors), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Modified for formatting/length.
