Daily Inspiration Quote by Margot Kidder

There’s a sly professionalism tucked into that throwaway brag: “I’m a very good screamer, that’s for sure.” Margot Kidder isn’t selling you a glamorous myth of acting; she’s naming a specific, unglamorous tool in the kit. The line lands because it collapses the distance between “movie star” and “working actor.” Screaming isn’t poetry or prestige. It’s labor. It’s breath control, timing, and the ability to hit the same emotional note take after take under hot lights while a crew adjusts a boom mic.

The subtext is Hollywood’s gendered casting math. For decades, actresses were routinely asked to register fear, urgency, and vulnerability in ways male leads weren’t, especially in action, thriller, and disaster storytelling. Kidder, immortalized as Lois Lane in Superman, spent plenty of screen time being imperiled, reacting, and yes, screaming. By claiming the skill with a wink, she sidesteps the insult embedded in those roles. She doesn’t apologize for the assignment; she owns it and turns it into craft.

“That’s for sure” is the kicker: a casual tag that reads like self-defense against the industry’s tendency to dismiss “reaction” performances as easy. It’s also a reminder that what audiences remember as raw emotion is often a repeatable technique. Kidder frames survival in the business as competence, not mystique, and that realism is its own kind of defiance.