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Geena Davis Biography

Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an American actress, film producer, writer, voice actress, former model, and former archer. She is known for her roles in The Fly (1986), Beetlejuice (1988), Thelma & Louise (1991), A League of Their Own (1992), The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Stuart Little (1999), and The Accidental Tourist, for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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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.

Fantasy, Kids, Minute, Space, World

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.

Come, Good, Three, Two, Waiting, Years

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.

Islands, Series, Stars, Trek, Watched, Watches

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

21St, Character, Female, Male, Males

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.

Bereft, Character, Characters, Female, Kids, Leaving

My daughter was a toddler. I had no idea there was anything wrong with kids' media. I started watching little preschool shows with her or G-rated videos or whatever; I couldn't believe what I was seeing, that there seemed to be far more male characters than female characters in what we make for little kids. It was just a shock.

Believe, Daughter, Female, Kids, Toddler, Videos

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

Female, Females, Kids, Males, Valued

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Everything, Ifs, Nothing, Risk, Wisdom

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.

Everything, Gender, Girl, Kids, Thinking, Training

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

Country, Impossibility, Leader, Leadership, Muslim, World

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.

Boys, Century, Earth, Girl, Kids, Teach

This is really funny, but we did a study of the occupations of female characters on TV, and there are so many female forensic scientists on TV because of all the CSI shows and Bones and whatever. I don't have to lobby anybody to add more female forensic scientists as role models. There's plenty. In real life, the people going into that field now are something like two-thirds women.

Add, Character, Csi, Field, Occupations, Real

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.

Hollywood, Interested, Men, Population, Running

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

Character, Characters, Male, Males, Think, Thinking

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].

Creativity, Ideas, Nervous, Noticed, People, Shut

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.

Home, Layers, Mean, Penetrate, Shoot, Takes

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].

40S, Davis, Long, People, War

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?"

Ability, Beautiful, Real, Sports, Team

I was so tall in high school that I was convinced that I was uncoordinated and not athletic. I was terrified to play any sport at all, no matter how hard they tried to convince me to be on the girls' basketball team as the tallest kid in class.

Basketball, Hard, School, Sport, Sports, Team

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.

Character, Characters, Female, Kids, Males

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