Jon Cryer

Jon Cryer: (on why he thinks John Hughes' movies have endured) John had a real need to believe in teenage icons and create teenage iconography - that's what he was doing with Breakfast Club. I think he was really tortured in his high school, and [movies] were a way of him psychologically coming to terms with his youth and sort of reordering it in his mind as a storyteller. I think kids will always latch on to people saying, 'Your experience is important. What you're going through right now is not trivial. We care about it, and we're right there with ya.'

Jon Cryer: (asked if he kept any of Duckie's wardrobe) I kept a couple of jackets that didn't even make it into the movie. I kept those bolo string ties. And I had the Duckie shoes for the longest time, and then in the mid-'90s, I lent them to Planet Hollywood, which has decided that I wasn't lending them, I was giving them - despite signed documents to the contrary. They're probably in the last remaining Planet Hollywood in, you know, Singapore or something. Isn't that ridiculous? The Duckie shoes should be mine!

Jon Cryer: You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way.