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We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.
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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On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.
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I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, Please, please just come play.
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I was so tall in high school that I was convinced that I was uncoordinated and not athletic. I was terrified to play any sport at all, no matter how hard they tried to convince me to be on the girls' basketball team as the tallest kid in class.
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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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It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there. It's why they call it the Zen art.
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My whole theory about why I couldn’t find any creators who realized they were leaving out female characters is because they were raised on the same ratio. I just heard someone the other day call it either ‘smurfing’ a movie, which is when there’s one female character, or ‘minioning’ a movie, which is when there’s no female characters.
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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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When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.
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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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Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.
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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
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I used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was uncoordinated. And as a result, I didn't want to try stuff.
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We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women.
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My sons last summer, they won a trophy from their surfing camp and they came home and went right over to the shelf and put it up next to my Oscar. That's where we put our trophies.
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The thing I noticed, have learned the most about directors, is: when they're very confident in themselves, they're open to creativity from other people. If they're scared or nervous, then they shut off and nobody's ideas [count].
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I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies].
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If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.
Geena Davis
I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'
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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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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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