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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.
Geena Davis
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Geena Davis
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 21
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Wareham
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Virginia Elizabeth Geena Davis
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I told my parents when I was three that I wanted to be in movies. I don't know what I saw at three years old that would make me decide that's a job and I want to have that job. But I was very confident, very sure that's what I wanted to do. I didn't do anything about it. I didn't prove it to myself or anything. I just knew.
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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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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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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 knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.
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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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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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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.
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Archers are pretty focused.
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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 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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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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I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, I haven't yet played the person staying home, the one that says, 'Good luck, honey,' or whatever. And so that's what I look for. Therefore, by virtue of that exclusion, I'm always trying to find roles that are challenging.
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I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.
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I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.
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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'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties.
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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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People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.
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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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