215 Quotes by Geena Davis

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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

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