Margot Kidder Quotes

I’m an old cynic.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 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 don’t know who the actresses all are. I’ve never heard of Kate but I’m sure she’ll do fine.

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.

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.

 

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.

Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death.

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.

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