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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.

Geena Davis

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Geena Davis
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 21
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I'm not somebody who takes stuff home with them, that if I shoot a scene and I'm personally impacted for days or something. I mean it certainly is affecting and everything, but it doesn't penetrate to some deeper layer. I'm in it when I'm in it.
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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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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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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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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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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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My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.
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Obviously, movies don't almost ever shoot in sequence.
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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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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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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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Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.
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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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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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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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I'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties.
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Even though I was 34 or 35 or something. I was like, “People can do that? Women can actually just say what they think?” It was an extraordinary experience to do that movie with her because every day was a lesson in how to just be yourself.
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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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The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.
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