62+ Margot Kidder Quotes On Death, Cancer And Law And Order

Margot Kidder was an American-Canadian actress, best known for her portrayal of Lois Lane in the Superman film series of the 1970s and 1980s. She also starred in other films such as Black Christmas, The Amityville Horror, and The Great Waldo Pepper. Kidder was also an outspoken activist for mental health awareness and environmental causes. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Margot Kidder on life, love, death.

Top 10 Margot Kidder Quotes

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. I love horror movies because they're really fun. They tap into those wonderful primal emotions.
5. The thing about the wacky fans is that they're really sweet.
6. I was very active in the peace movement, still am.
7. If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.
8. 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.
9. Being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• I was briefly bitter.
• My pro-choice activism keeps me busy.
• My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.
• I don't know who the actresses all are. I've never heard of Kate but I'm sure she'll do fine.
• I went to work and did a lot of homework about what was wrong with me.
• I'm a very good screamer, that's for sure.
• I was reading all these books, including the Bible - and I'm an atheist.
• This is my year of the remake. Go for it, see what you can do, guys, why not?
• Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.
• I think the little girl in Smallville is terrific, but I only watched it once.

Margot Kidder Quotes About Life

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

I just fell in love with Thomas McGuane the minute I saw him. He was the handsomest guy I'd ever seen, and gorgeous and sexy, and he had long hair and cowboy boots and tight jeans. So it was truly an act of love, to say the least, and it ended up having a permanent impact on my life, obviously. — Margot Kidder

Acting's fun, but life's more important. — Margot Kidder

I was saying to Paul Schrader that he missed the idealism and the passion of that era in Hollywood, but also in American life, that '60s sense of optimism and hope. — Margot Kidder

Chris was a friend of mine, I loved him. I didn't see him for 18 months before he died, but I'd met him several times after the accident. What was remarkable was his personal growth in his interior life. — 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

Margot Kidder Quotes About Love

I remember when we were doing the love scene in Some Kind Of Hero, we got in bed nervously. Then he looked up, and it was very genuine, and he went, " Richard Pryor's in bed with Lois Lane!" And it was so cute! — Margot Kidder

Mostly, in The Great Waldo Pepper I remember the lovely Ed Herrmann befriending me and taking care of me. I was crying a lot. I was a real mess when we made that. But this is all such ancient history, Jesus Lord. Was this before or after The Sting? — Margot Kidder

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

Margot Kidder Quotes About People

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. — Margot Kidder

I'm not going back to acting class, although I've thought of it. The classic training that people get usually when they start out, I never had, and I always felt and still feel the lack of it, so there's a lot of basic stuff that I just don't have a clue about. — Margot Kidder

The studios still had development programs for young people. Because you weren't talking about the budgets of small nations the way you are now when you make a movie. There was a lot more freedom to fail. — Margot Kidder

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. — 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

Margot Kidder Quotes About Movies

The only movie that ever really scared me was The Exorcist,but even then, I was laughing part of the time. — Margot Kidder

I'm not really into horror movies. — Margot Kidder

It's no accident that all the awards are for smaller movies. When you have $100 million in the budget for a movie, there's something obscenely wrong with the picture. But we didn't in those days, so it was fun. — Margot Kidder

I wandered around not knowing what I was doing in The Great Waldo Pepper and feeling pretty lost, and they rightly cut my part down. I don't think I was in very good emotional shape. I think I was a bit of a mess. I'd done about six movies back-to-back, and was in a state of complete exhaustion. — 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

Margot Kidder Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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? — 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

I'll have that inscribed on my damn grave. I still get stopped for being Lois Lane, and I'm 60 and have two grandchildren. So it's kind of weird. — Margot Kidder

There's a lot of bullshit in Peter Fonda's autobiography. A great deal of it is complete fabrication. — Margot Kidder

Nudity in the flesh doesn't bother me. But having my mind uncovered - that scares the hell out of me. — Margot Kidder

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

I do remember when I first read the script of the 92 In The Shade. I was in the house at Nicholas Beach, and that gang was starting to break up, and I read this terribly well-written dialogue, not figuring out that films are about structure and the thing was totally unstructured, and I thought, "Who is this writer? God, he's great." — Margot Kidder

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

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. — Margot Kidder

I, like everybody else, have lost most of my pension plan in this economic crash. So I have to. I'm going to call it I Slept With Everyone On Television. — Margot Kidder

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

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. — Margot Kidder

I got a reputation for being sort of nuts and difficult, because I was at that point, so I wasn't much in demand. And also, on the basic level, I'd made a lot of movies that didn't make money. And if you make movies that don't make money - I mean, it is a business, after all - you are not in demand. — 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

It [the pharmaceutical industry] is the most profitable industry in the world, and partially funds the US government. It surpasses oil in terms of profits and my country recently went to war due to oil pricing. What does that say they will do to keep this other industry in tact? It is up to patients and their families to question what they are being given, and to consumers to demand better, more natural alternatives. — Margot Kidder

I still get stopped by those freaky fundamentalists going "Oh, I'm so glad you did Tribulation." And I wanna go, "Don't count me into your group, honeybuns. I'm not one of you." — Margot Kidder

Just the dream of every aging has-been actress who slipped out in public is to work with a bunch of gay boys. — Margot Kidder

When you finally end something like Superman and then find yourself world-famous, it's pretty weird, lemme tell ya. Fame is weird, is what it really is. It's the weirdest thing in the world. — 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

Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls was made all about drugs, when to most of us, that just meant pot and magic mushrooms. He made it seem like we were all shooting heroin into our eyeballs. But that's part of the whole '60s and what it represented: feminism and civil rights and trying to stop the war. Hopefully we're starting to see some of that optimism again, through the excitement around Barack Obama. — Margot Kidder

Life Lessons by Margot Kidder

1. Margot Kidder's work as an actress demonstrates the importance of resilience and hard work, as she overcame personal struggles and continued to pursue her passion for acting.
2. Her advocacy for social justice and mental health awareness serves as an inspiration to speak up for what you believe in and to seek help when needed.
3. Her career is a reminder that success is not always linear, and that it is possible to continue to pursue your dreams despite obstacles.