Margot Kidder Quotes

• 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

• 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.

  Margot Kidder

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Margot Kidder

• 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.

  Margot Kidder

• 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.

  Margot Kidder

• 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.

  Margot Kidder

• 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

• The thing about the wacky fans is that they’re really sweet.

  Margot Kidder

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

  Margot Kidder

• 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

• 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

• 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

• My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.

  Margot Kidder

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

  Margot Kidder

• It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville.

  Margot Kidder

•  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 s*x.

  Margot Kidder

• If you’re gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.

  Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder (41)

Birth:	17th October, 1948
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actress

About

Margot Kidder is a Canadian-American actress. She appeared in a wide range of films during the 1970s and 1980s such as Sisters, Black Christmas, The Great Waldo Pepper, The Amityville Horror and Heartaches. She is best known for her role as Lois Lane in four Superman movies opposite Christopher Reeve, beginning with Superman in 1978.

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