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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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• 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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• I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."

  Geena Davis

  Mother Daughter, Kids, Character

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

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• I realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Boards, Half

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

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• [My aunt] took me to my first play, too, which was dinner theater. I don't know if they have that in England, but you eat a dinner while you watch a play. And she ordered a glass of wine. I was like, "Oh my God. This is, like, the most sophisticated thing I have ever done."

  Geena Davis

  Wine, Aunt, Glasses

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

  Geena Davis

  Aunt, Impact, Understanding

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

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• 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

  Simple, Long, Want

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

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• The creators of kids' media had no idea they were leaving out that many female characters. They were in utter shock that the worlds they were creating were so bereft of female presences.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Leaving, Female

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• 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 everybody's known the numbers for decades. Nobody's stunned to hear there are very few female directors, only 4 or 7 percent. Everybody knows, but it doesn't change anything. It doesn't make people say, "Wow! We should change that." Nothing happens. It's utterly stagnant.

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  Thinking, People, Female

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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

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  Character, Males, Female

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was never anything like a "supermodel," but I made a living at it for a couple years. The thing was, I was convinced that I was tricking everyone into thinking I was attractive.

  Geena Davis

  New York, Couple, Thinking

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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• 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.

  Geena Davis

  Self, Trying, Want

  "The Conversation With Geena Davis, Leading The Charge On Gender Equity In Entertainment". Interview with Alison Glock, www.espn.com. October 30, 2015.

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

  Geena Davis

  School, Kids, Class

  "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 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."

  Geena Davis

  Basketball, Girl, Sports

  "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 got cast playing the best baseball player anybody's ever seen. I don't know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, "Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability."

  Geena Davis

  Sports, Baseball, Player

  "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 wanted to take up a sport the real way and see if I actually had athletic ability. And then I happened to see it was during the Atlanta Olympics. And there was a lot of coverage of archery because the U.S. men's team won all the medals. And I thought, "Wow, that's beautiful. And it's so dramatic, a beautiful sport. And I wonder if I would be good at it?"

  Geena Davis

  Beautiful, Sports, Real

  "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 very competitive, I think.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking

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

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  Years, Two, Waiting

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

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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!'

  Geena Davis

  Doors, Elbows, Arms

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

  Geena Davis

  Gone, Meetings, Havens

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

  Geena Davis

  America, Sound, Vote

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• ~There are moments when I feel like I have a looong road ahead of me, with college and dating and driving and all of that. But then I realize it just means that I have so much time left to enjoy my kids. And it really does go by so quickly.~

  Geena Davis

  Mean, Kids, Parenting

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

  Geena Davis

  Divorce, Stills, Ifs

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

  Geena Davis

  Archery, Aptitude, Natural

  "Team A-list: Celebs who could have been in the Olympics (no seriously, they could)" by Kate Wills, www.mirror.co.uk. July 25, 2012.

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

  Geena Davis

  Chocolate, Careful, Brushing

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