Geena Davis Quotes

• If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Experience

• Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows… I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Office, Examinations

• This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Interesting, Things

• I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.

   

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Schools, Compliance

• It’s a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what’s right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that’s sort of what we’re showing. And you can dream.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Fantasy, Political

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

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Muslim, Countries

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

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Careful

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

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

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

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Planet, Importance

• I played this character twice in live action, and now I’ve become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn – I’ve never been a drawn character before.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Animated, Character

• Rosie knows how to play ball. She’s an athlete, for sure.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person

• So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Countries, Government, Leaders

• If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Risk

  Tags in Yourself

• I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I’d do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I’d pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I’d scream, ‘Ow, ow, put it back!’

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Pretend

• I’ve always looked up to him, even though he is shorter.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person

• I haven’t ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Alone

• I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in America

  Tags in American

• Archery is something that I took up later and didn’t know I had a natural aptitude for.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Archery, Natural, Aptitude

• As an Independent, she has no party backing… Her being the first Independent president trumps the fact that she’s a woman. It causes even more upheaval in Washington than her being female.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Independent, President

• Archers are pretty focused.

  Geena Davis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Focused

Geena Davis (23)

Birth:	21st January, 1956
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Athlete, Model, Producer, Writer

About

Geena Davis is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist. She is known for her roles in The Fly, Beetlejuice, Thelma & Louise, A League of Their Own, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Stuart Little and The Accidental Tourist, for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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