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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.
Geena Davis
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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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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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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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Archers are pretty focused.
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Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.
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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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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'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties.
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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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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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Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters in what we're showing little kids in the 21st century, which was stunning to me. But I couldn't find anybody else who noticed.
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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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A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
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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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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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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
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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 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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People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.
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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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