Daily Inspiration Quote by Margot Kidder

Fame, in Kidder's telling, isn't a prize so much as a social malfunction. Calling it "weird" is doing a lot of work: it's the plainest possible word for something she probably doesn't want to glamorize, litigate, or turn into a sob story. "Weird" sidesteps self-pity and still lands the point that celebrity reorganizes reality. Your face becomes public property; strangers talk to you like they've known you for years; your worst day can be someone else's entertainment. The understatement is the shield.

The kicker is the second sentence, which doubles as diagnosis and boundary: "The only people who get how weird it is are other famous people". That's not elitism; it's a statement about lived experience and the isolation baked into being highly visible. Kidder is describing a closed loop of empathy where the usual support systems fail because the situation is so unlike ordinary life. Friends can sympathize, but they can't calibrate to the constant surveillance, the bargaining with your own image, the way anonymity stops being a default setting.

Coming from an actress whose most iconic role placed her inside a cultural machine (Superman-era mass fame, pre-social media but heavy on tabloids and gatekeepers), the line reads like a warning against the fan fantasy that celebrity equals intimacy. It also hints at the quiet solidarity among public figures: fame creates a weird new class, not defined by money alone but by the loss of normal human margins.