I'm not somebody who takes stuff home with them, that if I shoot a scene and I'm personally impacted for days or… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The thing I noticed, have learned the most about directors, is: when they're very confident in themselves, they're open to creativity from… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it." — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I think if you're doing a play, you're rehearsing enough that you get to a point where it's freeing again. But in… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
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… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I wanted to take up a sport the real way and see if I actually had athletic ability. And then I happened… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
After a couple of rehearsals and a couple of takes, Sydney Pollack says, "Come here. Why are you not nervous?" And I… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Any movie you see, if Tom Cruise is in an action movie or whatever it is, The Avengers, there's going to be… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
If we show fictional characters doing cool stuff, then girls will want to be it in real life. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I once read a quote that I think was Michelle Pfeiffer in an article, who said that she thought people went into… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
It's okay if it takes two or three years for something really good to come along, but I don't want to wait… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Nobody ever said, "Well if you want to be in movies, you should go to L.A." Everybody else was going to New… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
[My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England,… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
An eye-opening moment in my life, a very defining moment, was the first time I met Susan Sarandon [before shooting Thelma &… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
In advertisements for your favorite products, are women denigrated or objectified in some way? All of that is important. I would rewrite my kids'… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
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. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I remember when 'A League of Their Own' was coming out in '92, when I was doing interviews, it seemed like every interviewer at… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Behind the cameras, there's a different problem, which I think is not unconscious gender bias. It's probably categorized more as conscious gender bias. Because… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I was so tall in high school that I was convinced that I was uncoordinated and not athletic. I was terrified to play any… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
That's the really frustrating thing, but also the fixable thing. My theory why no one notices is that that's the [women's roles] ratio thing… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image