Geena Davis
Geena Davis
Virginia Elizabeth "Geena" Davis is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and former archer. She is known for her roles in The Fly, Beetlejuice, Thelma & Louise, A League of Their Own, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Stuart Littleand The Accidental Tourist, for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress...
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth21 January 1956
CityWareham, MA
girl kids thinking
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.
children important problem
The most important thing is to change what children see from the beginning. To not create a problem we have to fix later.
party social persons
I'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties.
powerful character president
I was lucky enough to be in some movies where I had powerful characters or I got to be the president on TV for a little while. Very short administration.
class culture citizens
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.
thinking female culture
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.
self-esteem missing littles
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.
self-esteem fake looks
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.
summer home son
My sons last summer, they won a trophy from their surfing camp and they came home and went right over to the shelf and put it up next to my Oscar. That's where we put our trophies.
taken thinking play
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.
mean home layers
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.
creativity ideas people
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].
tv-shows careers tvs
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.
fun littles stuff
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.