Top 91 Geena Quotes

#1. When I moved to the United States [from Asia] in 2001, I experienced a more rigid concept of gender, but somehow I was allowed to change my name and my gender marker. Why is there that paradox? How do I get those two things to be the same?

Geena Rocero

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

Geena Davis

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#3. I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#5. If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#7. We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#9. Once I fix what kids watch, I'll be moving on to everything else.

Geena Davis

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#10. 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

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#11. 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].

Geena Davis

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#12. The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.

Geena Davis

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#13. 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

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#14. 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.

Geena Davis

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#15. I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can we possibly be showing boys this narrow vision of what women are and what they can be.

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#17. We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do.

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#20. 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.

Geena Davis

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#21. When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business - my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.

Geena Davis

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#22. I had very, very bad self-esteem - that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn't deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self esteem.

Geena Davis

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#23. 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

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#24. 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."

Geena Davis

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#25. I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.

Geena Davis

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#26. 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

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#27. I always want a challenge. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don't get to do anything. And it's really hard to avoid those.

Geena Davis

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#28. Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure.

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#30. When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

Geena Davis

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#31. 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

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#32. Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?

Geena Davis

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#33. I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration.

Geena Davis

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#34. I once read a quote that I think was Michelle Pfeiffer in an article, who said that she thought people went into acting because maybe if you could convince millions of people to like you, you will finally like yourself, approve of yourself. I don't know if that may have been a part of it.

Geena Davis

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#35. Gender has always been considered a fact immutable. But we now know it's actually more fluid, complex, and mysterious. Because of my success, I never have the courage to share my story. Not because I thought what I am is wrong but because of how the world treats those of us who wish to break free.

Geena Rocero

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

Geena Davis

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#37. We have it in our heads that women only need to take up a certain amount of space and then we've done right by them. It's the same in every profession. We get a handful of women professors, a few female board members - that looks normal.

Geena Davis

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#38. When I was a model, actually, for a little while, my friend that I worked with a lot, she had horrible self-esteem too. We decided that the exact moment when we actually thought we were attractive, we wouldn't be any more. We would just, like, miss it.

Geena Davis

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#39. 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

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#40. The costume designer, her name is Anne Hardinge. She's done "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz." She's really comedic costume designer, which was right up my alley. She was a joy to work with. She was like fabulous Geena Davis. She was just floating with her red lip and kind of fabulous.

Jerusha Hess

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#41. 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.

Geena Davis

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#42. 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

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#43. I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.

Geena Davis

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#44. All of Hollywood is run on one assumption: That women will watch stories about men, but men won't watch stories about women. It is a horrible indictment of our society of we assume that one half of our population is just not interested in the other half.

Geena Davis

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#45. I remember very distinctly being so tall I didn't fit sleeves, so I ended up modeling lingerie and bathing suits, sleeveless stuff, basically. I didn't have a good body, but I believed I knew how to stand or pose to mask it.

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#48. 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

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#49. My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't see it. We think it's normal.

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#51. They called and said, "I know we're not supposed to even tell you, but you've been offered to play the President." And I said, "OK. Say yes." And they were like, "Do you want to read it maybe?" And I was like, "No, I just want to be the president."

Geena Davis

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#52. This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.

Geena Davis

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#53. July 4th, (ie, time to celebrate our freedoms as Americans by eating hormone-laden farm animals and blowing shit up)
-Geena (Triple Shot Betty)

Jody Gehrman

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#54. 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.

Geena Davis

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#55. 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

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#56. It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.

Geena Davis

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#57. 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.

Geena Davis

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#58. 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.

Geena Davis

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#59. I was assigned boy at birth but I have always known I was a girl.

Geena Rocero

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#60. I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#63. I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, "I haven't yet played the person staying home, the one that says, 'Good luck, honey,' or whatever." And so that's what I look for. Therefore, by virtue of that exclusion, I'm always trying to find roles that are challenging.

Geena Davis

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#64. As an Independent, she has no party backing ... Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she's a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

Geena Davis

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#65. 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

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

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#68. 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

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#69. 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

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#70. We should allow them to be who they are, because then we end up with healthy kids.

Geena Rocero

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#71. 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.

Geena Davis

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#72. The world makes you something that you're not - but you know inside what you are.

Geena Rocero

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#73. 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.

Geena Davis

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#74. Archers are pretty focused.

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#76. 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

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#77. 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

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#78. I just love all the details about movies, and it's fun to be involved in everything. I just love it. It's just a little added fun thing to be consulted about stuff.

Geena Davis

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#79. 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

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#80. Nobody ever said, "Well if you want to be in movies, you should go to L.A." Everybody else was going to New York. So I went to New York with them. And then I was like, "How am I supposed to get a movie?"

Geena Davis

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#81. 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.

Geena Davis

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#82. I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter.

Geena Davis

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#83. It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing. And you can dream.

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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

Geena Davis

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#86. 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.

Geena Davis

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#87. 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

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#88. I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.

Geena Davis

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#89. 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

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

Geena Davis

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#91. Human dignity should be without borders.

Geena Rocero

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