36 Quotes by Margot Kidder
- The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.
- It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville.
- My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.
- It was a wonderful time to be young. The 1960s didn't end until about 1976. We all believed in Make Love, Not War. We were idealistic innocents, despite the drugs and sex.
- My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.
- Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press conference and the writers were going on about these terrible things that supposedly happened while we were filming.
- The first Superman film took up a huge chunk of our lives, but it was a wonderful time for us. We were young, my daughter was little, we were filming in London for a year, so we became like a close family.
- The thing about being famous is, it's weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.
- There's a new science out called orthomolecular medicine. You correct the chemical imbalance with amino acids and vitamins and minerals that are naturally in the body.
- There's this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldn't be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.
- They fired director Richard Donner because they didn't want to pay him, and he's the reason the franchise became so successful in the first place. There's a big part of Superman II that he did that no one has ever seen.
- They wanted Bridgette to be this extremely enigmatic character. Im about the least enigmatic person on the planet, so I just thought what I did on the show was boring.
- This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?
- We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.
- If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.
- You don't have a lot of time; you have to get it right. It's amazing how they create these episodes in such a short amount of time. They lavish a lot of care and money on each episode, and they just look terrific.
- I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
- You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.
- Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.
- I'd had episodes before, but I swept them under the carpet. This time, I couldn't do that because everyone knew. I got on with the hard work of getting better and haven't had a blip in almost 10 years.
- I'm an old cynic.
- God, George Bush makes me want to slash my wrists. He's so embarrassing I have to leave the room when he's on the news. What a monkey.
- Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
- I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
- I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.
- I had always thought of Chris as my kid brother and watching how this kid, as I still thought of him, had affected so many people's lives around the world was incredible.
- I'm a grandmother with dogs and nice friends here in the Rocky mountains. Ever see the movie A River Runs Through It? That's where I live. It's beautiful, no two ways about it.
- Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.
- I liked the fact that Lois was one person with Clark and another with Superman. I think that, as women, we do that a lot when we fall in love.
- I'm a very good screamer, that's for sure.
- I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me.
- I was in two episodes playing Christopher Reeve's character's emissary. They wanted to have my character announce Dr Swan's death, which I thought was exploitative.
- I was briefly bitter.
- I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.
- I remember laughing an inordinate amount of time. Setting up scenes that involve ooze coming out basements, or pigs' heads flying through windows is really fun. How could you not laugh?
- I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
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