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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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Geena Davis
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 21
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Wareham
Massachusetts
Virginia Elizabeth Geena Davis
Virginia Elizabeth Davis
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All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.
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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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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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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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If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.
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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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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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Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.
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My point was the world is missing female characters. A lot of times there is one female character, maybe even a cool one, maybe even an important one. But where are all the rest?
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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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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 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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A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
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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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The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.
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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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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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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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