The only movies I saw till I was 17 were made by Disney. My parents had this thing. Disney was like, you… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
My sons last summer, they won a trophy from their surfing camp and they came home and went right over to the… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I had told my agents that I never wanted to do an hour-long TV show. I said, "I'm not that stupid." Because… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
My point was the world is missing female characters. A lot of times there is one female character, maybe even a cool… — Geena Davis Character Copy Share Image
I just love all the details about movies, and it's fun to be involved in everything. I just love it. It's just… — 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 parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew… — Geena Davis England Copy Share Image
The fictitious worlds created for kids are nearly bereft of female presence. It's sending a very clear message from the beginning that… — Geena Davis Adventure 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 Ambition Copy Share Image
My daughter was a toddler. I had no idea there was anything wrong with kids' media.I started watching little preschool shows with… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I meet Susan [Saradon], and she was amazing. We sit down to go through the script [Thelma & Louise]. I swear, I… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
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
I never intended to become a data head. I could never have predicted it would play such an important role in my… — Geena Davis Gender Copy Share Image
The big takeaway I got from 'Thelma & Louise' was the reaction of women who had seen the movie being so profound,… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are… — Geena Davis Chance Copy Share Image
As an Independent, she has no party backing... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It… — Geena Davis Being Copy Share Image
My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture,… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less… — Geena Davis Fantasy Copy Share Image
Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite… — Geena Davis Cop Copy Share Image
The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that… — Geena Davis Character 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 Creator Copy Share Image
We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up… — Geena Davis Characters 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]… — Geena Davis Feminism 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 Culture 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
I watched a lot of series. I didn't watch a lot of movies on TV. But I watched Gilligan's Island and Star… — Geena Davis Islands 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
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 Copy Share Image
Having been in some roles that really resonated with women, I became hyper-aware of how women are represented in Hollywood. — Geena Davis Hollywood Copy Share Image
What I didn't realize until much later, in hindsight, was I had subconsciously been choosing projects where the woman was in charge… — Geena Davis Destiny Copy Share Image
I always want a challenge. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don't get to do… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult,… — Geena Davis Adults Copy Share Image
One thing I always want to clear up was the notion that I 'took time off to have a baby.' A lot… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea… — Geena Davis Clothes Copy Share Image
![“I meet Susan [Saradon], and she was amazing. We sit down to go through the script [Thelma & Louise]. I swear, I think it was page one - she says, "So my first line, I don't think we need that line. Or we could put it on page two. Cut this ..." And I was just like ... My jaw was to the ground.” quote by Geena Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/889/geena-davis-2583_cutting_i-meet-susan-saradon-and-she-was-amazing_2081446.jpg)
![“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 they grew up with. It's just been that way forever, so they don't see it.” quote by Geena Davis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/934/geena-davis-2583_forever_that-s-the-really-frustrating-thing-but_195125.jpg)
