Geena Davis Quotes - Page 3

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• The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.

  Geena Davis

  Character, People, Males

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• When I started watching Breaking Bad, I binge-watched it. I thought it was so good that I started to cry. It's the only time in my life I've been completely jealous, the only time. I was like, [imitates crying] "I want to do what Bryan Cranston gets to do. I want a part like that." [both laugh] Isn't that pathetic?

  Geena Davis

  Jealous, Laughing, Want

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• 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.

  Geena Davis

  Forever, Roles, Ratios

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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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.

  Geena Davis

  Girl, Kids, Space

  "Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media" by Sydney Levine, www.indiewire.com. March 4, 2015.

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• When I got pregnant, I told [Susan Sarandon ]. She said, "All right. I'm gonna tell you the thing to do when you're giving birth: Push like you're trying to win a prize, like you want to be the best patient he's ever had. He's going to give you a prize for winning that." So I did. [The doctor] said, "You are probably the best pusher I've had as a patient."

  Geena Davis

  Winning, Doctors, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

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

  Geena Davis

  Leadership, Country, World

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

  Geena Davis

  Party, Social, Persons

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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

  Geena Davis

  Family, Work, Reality

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• 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.

  Geena Davis

  Jobs, New York, Becoming

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• The thing I noticed, have learned the most about directors, is: when they're very confident in themselves, they're open to creativity from other people. If they're scared or nervous, then they shut off and nobody's ideas [count].

  Geena Davis

  Creativity, Ideas, People

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I do like the process of producing. Later in my career, like when I had the TV show, I was a producer and I've been on a few things.

  Geena Davis

  Tv Shows, Careers, Tvs

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I'm not somebody who takes stuff home with them, that if I shoot a scene and I'm personally impacted for days or something. I mean it certainly is affecting and everything, but it doesn't penetrate to some deeper layer. I'm in it when I'm in it.

  Geena Davis

  Home, Mean, Layers

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women.

  Geena Davis

  Leaving, Actors, Entertainment

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• For a long time, way back in the ’30s and ’40s, there were fabulous female roles. Bette Davis and all those people had incredible, great roles. After World War II, something happened where it was not only "get out of the factories," but "get out of the movies." That's when women's roles started to really [change].

  Geena Davis

  War, Long, People

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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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.

  Geena Davis

  Impact, Creator, Efficient

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• There were so many women who had worked throughout the war in every possible job. They were told, "Now leave, so the men can come in" and there was this whole feminizing of women: You have to be very, very retiring and submissive and whatever.

  Geena Davis

  Jobs, War, Men

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Any movie you see, if Tom Cruise is in an action movie or whatever it is, The Avengers, there's going to be a kick-ass female character. Usually one. And there's a term for this, but I don't know what it is. But someone's coined a term where there's one female character who's incredibly tough and strong and just as good as the guys at whatever it is they’re doing, and usually wearing black, skin-tight clothes, and [she] has no personality whatsoever, and is not funny.

  Geena Davis

  Strong, Character, Wearing Black

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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

  Geena Davis

  Character, Thinking, Males

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

  Geena Davis

  Play, Problem, Flaws

  "Comic-Con 2016 Interviews: Geena Davis, Ben Daniels, Alfonso Herrera & Jeremy Slater Discuss the Upcoming Fox Series THE EXORCIST". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. July 29, 2016.

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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.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Kids, Males

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• 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 a movie, if you rehearse too much, now you've just shown everybody what you're going to do. And any element of surprise or impulsiveness is taken away.

  Geena Davis

  Taken, Thinking, Play

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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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.

  Geena Davis

  Summer, Home, Son

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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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.

  Geena Davis

  Years, Two, Waiting

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, People, Think Of Me

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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