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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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Geena Davis
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 21
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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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The only movies I saw till I was 17 were made by Disney. My parents had this thing. Disney was like, you know, Ford is a good car. Disney makes good movies that are good for kids and safe.
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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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I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.
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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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If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.
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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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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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All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.
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Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.
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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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A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
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The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in the world and have half of the dreams and ambitions. Our slogan is, If they see it, they can be it.
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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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I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.
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Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.
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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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My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.
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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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