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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.
Geena Davis
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Geena Davis
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 21
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Virginia Elizabeth Geena Davis
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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 have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal.
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I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.
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They called and said, I know we're not supposed to even tell you, but you've been offered to play the President. And I said, OK. Say yes. And they were like, Do you want to read it maybe? And I was like, No, I just want to be the president.
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Obviously, movies don't almost ever shoot in sequence.
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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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Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.
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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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On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.
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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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My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.
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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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The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.
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Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.
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People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.
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I had told my agents that I never wanted to do an hour-long TV show. I said, I'm not that stupid. Because it's the worst lifestyle in Hollywood.
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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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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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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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Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.
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