Top 25 Margot Kidder Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “With any group of people in life, sad things happen, and crazy things, and happy things. When you’re in the public eye, it’s just amplified, that’s all.”

— Margot Kidder

2. “If you’re gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.”

— Margot Kidder

3. “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.”

— Margot Kidder

4. “My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.”

— Margot Kidder

5. “Nudity in the flesh doesn’t bother me. But having my mind uncovered – that scares the hell out of me.”

— Margot Kidder

6. “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.”

— Margot Kidder

7. “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.”

— Margot Kidder

8. “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.”

— Margot Kidder

9. “I was reading all these books, including the Bible – and I’m an atheist.”

— Margot Kidder

10. “The thing about being famous is, it’s weird. The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people.”

— Margot Kidder

11. “The thing about all good horror movies is that the fans expect a couple of inside jokes. Maybe I’m supposed to be saying how terrified I was while making it, but it was really fun.”

— Margot Kidder

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12. “We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you’re young you think that’s how life works.”

— Margot Kidder

13. “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.”

— Margot Kidder

14. “My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.”

— Margot Kidder

15. “I’m a very good screamer, that’s for sure.”

— Margot Kidder

16. “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.”

— Margot Kidder

17. “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 peoples lives around the world was incredible.”

— Margot Kidder

18. “Acting’s fun, but life’s more important.”

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19. “I was very active in the peace movement, still am.”

— Margot Kidder

20. “Theres this unspoken club where you say to each other: Oh God, if they only knew how ordinary I was, they wouldnt be interested. That includes movie stars and politicians.”

— Margot Kidder

21. “Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.”

— Margot Kidder

22. “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.”

— Margot Kidder

23. “I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me.”

— Margot Kidder

24. “I was briefly bitter.”

— Margot Kidder

25. “This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?”

— Margot Kidder

26. “I love horror movies because they’re really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.”

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27. “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.”

— Margot Kidder

28. “The thing about the wacky fans is that they’re really sweet.”

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29. “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.”

— Margot Kidder