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The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.
Geena Davis
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Geena Davis
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 21
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Wareham
Massachusetts
Virginia Elizabeth Geena Davis
Virginia Elizabeth Davis
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Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.
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The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.
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My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.
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If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.
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People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.
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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
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In advertisements for your favorite products, are women denigrated or objectified in some way? All of that is important. I would rewrite my kids' books, I would write it in the books for the babysitter!
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I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.
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For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only get out of the factories, but get out of the movies. That's when women's roles started to really [change].
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Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.
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I told my parents when I was three that I wanted to be in movies. I don't know what I saw at three years old that would make me decide that's a job and I want to have that job. But I was very confident, very sure that's what I wanted to do. I didn't do anything about it. I didn't prove it to myself or anything. I just knew.
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Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.
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It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait ten years for something great to come along.
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When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
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I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can we possibly be showing boys this narrow vision of what women are and what they can be.
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Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.
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I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.
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I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.
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