215 Quotes by Geena Davis

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s really important for boys to see that girls take up half of the planet – which we do.

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.

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.

Obviously, movies don’t almost ever shoot in sequence.