Politics & Power Quote by Margot Kidder

Margot Kidder’s line lands like a weary punchline from someone who’s watched her life get turned into a public-service announcement about what happens when fame meets fragility. “Being pretty crazy” is doing double duty: it’s blunt self-reporting and a defensive simplification, the kind celebrities use when the truth is messier than the headline. She’s not romanticizing instability; she’s naming how dangerous it becomes once it’s paired with pursuit. The problem isn’t only the breakdown, it’s the surveillance.

Dropping “National Enquirer” pins the era and the machinery. This wasn’t vague gossip; it was an industry built to monetize someone else’s worst week, then claim it was just “what people are interested in.” Kidder’s phrasing makes the chase feel physical, predatory. You can hear the lack of distance: not “coverage,” not “attention,” but being chased.

Then comes the kicker: “The British tabloids were the worst.” It’s a comparative indictment of a media culture famous for treating private lives as a competitive sport. The subtext isn’t just that British papers are nastier; it’s that there are gradations of cruelty, and she’s mapped them from experience. Kidder, forever linked to Superman in the public imagination, is pointing at the kryptonite: a press ecosystem that turns mental health into spectacle and calls it entertainment.

What makes the quote work is its casualness. No grand thesis, no activist slogan. Just the exhausted clarity of someone who learned that in celebrity culture, vulnerability isn’t met with care - it’s met with cameras.