215 Quotes by Geena Davis

I just love all the details about movies, and it’s fun to be involved in everything. I just love it. It’s just a little added fun thing to be consulted about stuff.

I just passed on some a script that I was sent, because I said, “I haven’t yet played the person staying home, the one that says, ‘Good luck, honey,’ or whatever.” And so that’s what I look for. Therefore, by virtue of that exclusion, I’m always trying to find roles that are challenging.

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.

There were so many women who had worked throughout the war in every possible job. They were told, “Now leave, so the men can come in” and there was this whole feminizing of women: You have to be very, very retiring and submissive and whatever.

I got cast playing the best baseball player anybody’s ever seen. I don’t know how to play any sport, including baseball, but I trained really hard. They had these great coaches, and they started saying, “Wow, you have some like really untapped athletic ability.”

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.

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we’re portrayed in popular culture.

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

On film, you can’t do it over again. And you do have to stop shooting at a certain point.