Geena Davis Quotes

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Archers are pretty focused.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

I drive [Susan Sarandon] nuts. I'm always talking about her being my hero. I'm sure she's probably sick of it.

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

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 standard, then you feel inadequate.

Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. I can't just do something the plain way. I don't cook a bowl of pasta; it has to be puff pastry swans.

Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.

What are we doing that for in the 21st century? Why on earth would we teach kids that girls are less important than boys? It just made no sense to me.

I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.

I was really lucky that I had an aunt who was very inspiring to me. She was different than anybody in my family on either side.

It's really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet - which we do.

The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.

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.

The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

I'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties.

A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.

All I wanted, to be petite and attractive. I was afraid I'd never stop growing.

I used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was uncoordinated. And as a result, I didn't want to try stuff.

I immediately noticed there were far more male characters than female characters in the programs, even now, in the 21st century.

Obviously, movies don't almost ever shoot in sequence.

My thing in high school was being the tallest kid in class. Always. I was always the tallest kid in class.

My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture.

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."

The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.

On film, you can't do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.

Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught me how to watch dailies. That it was very important.

I watch very little television, actually. There's so many shows I want to watch and then I know I'll get hooked and I have to binge-watch the entire thing.

One thing is a fairly simple and straightforward thing. I don't long to direct. I really want to get some good parts.

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."

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.

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.

I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters.

I watched a lot of series. I didn't watch a lot of movies on TV. But I watched Gilligan's Island and Star Trek and all that stuff.

I really only did theater in school in college. I did summer stock a couple of times in the summer, and plays that the school put on. But I knew I wanted to be in movies.

I love theater. Just, it never spoke to me.

I do have a very chill - I can watch all my movies. A lot of people don't like to watch their work. I watch everything. All the time.

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.

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.

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.