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So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.
Geena Davis
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Geena Davis
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 21
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The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different, it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.
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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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This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.
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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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I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration.
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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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All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.
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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 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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One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.
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I once read a quote that I think was Michelle Pfeiffer in an article, who said that she thought people went into acting because maybe if you could convince millions of people to like you, you will finally like yourself, approve of yourself. I don't know if that may have been a part of it.
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If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.
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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.
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Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters in what we're showing little kids in the 21st century, which was stunning to me. But I couldn't find anybody else who noticed.
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I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.
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Archers are pretty focused.
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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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We need more female directors, we also need men to step up and identify with female characters and stories about women. We don't want to create a ghetto where women have to do movies about women. To assume stories about women need to be told by a woman isn't necessarily true, just as stories about men don't need a male director.
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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
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I don't really bust anybody publicly. It's much more efficient if I can impact the creators. So that's what we do. It's had a great impact.
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