The 50+ Margot Kidder Quotes

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.

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.

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?

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.

My Grandson Sees Me As Lois On Tv Every Christmas, And That Scores Me Points.

This Is My Year Of The Remake. Go For It, See What You Can Do, Guys, Why Not?

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.

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.

I'm Not Really Into Horror Movies.

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.

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.

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.