Geena Davis famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.
-- Geena Davis

#Risk
Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.
-- Geena Davis

#Kids #Males #Female
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

#Running #Men #Stories
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
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
I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.
-- Geena Davis

#Gone #Meetings
Archers are pretty focused.
-- Geena Davis

#Archer #Focused
Something's like crossed over in me and I can't go back. I couldn't live.
-- Geena Davis
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

#Country #Thinking #Government
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
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 #Way #Elbows
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

#Workout #Fun #Character
The more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.
-- Geena Davis

#Girl #Thinking #Watches
~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
If it isn't a success, that still wouldn't be grounds for divorce.
-- Geena Davis

#Divorce #Stills
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

#Daughter #Mother #Believe
Are you stupid or did you just take lessons?
-- Geena Davis

#Stupid #Lessons #Insult
Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.
-- Geena Davis

#Archery #Aptitude #Natural
A woman as the leader of the Free World is an impossibility. Muslim countries won't talk to you.
-- Geena Davis

#Country #Leader #World
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

#Girl #School #Years
Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate....
-- Geena Davis

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

#Girl #Boys #Important

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