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People think of me in the same breath as Robert Redford and Robert De Niro.

Geena Davis

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Geena Davis
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: January 21
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Virginia Elizabeth Geena Davis
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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 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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I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, Please, please just come play.
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They called and said, I know we're not supposed to even tell you, but you've been offered to play the President. And I said, OK. Say yes. And they were like, Do you want to read it maybe? And I was like, No, I just want to be the president.
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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.
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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 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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Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.
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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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Obviously, movies don't almost ever shoot in sequence.
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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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If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life.
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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 once read a quote that I think was Michelle Pfeiffer in an article, who said that she thought people went into acting because maybe if you could convince millions of people to like you, you will finally like yourself, approve of yourself. I don't know if that may have been a part of it.
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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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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
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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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When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
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I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.
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