215 Quotes by Geena Davis

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.