Geena Davis Quotes
Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience the male journey.
Quotes to Explore
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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Oakland kids are always the best.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.
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Boundaries are actually the main factor in space, just as the present, another boundary, is the main factor in time.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Whenever people ask me what the story is for my next film, I won't tell and people feel it's because I'm being secretive or something, but it's actually because I'm ashamed to sum up a film in three sentences.
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A lot of people think that because I'm from Malaysia, I'm driven by Malaysian sound, but actually, it's mostly just my melodies.
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The important thing is to build up my cardiovascular system, so I have the stamina to do stunts. To me, stepping over the line, taking a chance and succeeding is the ultimate freedom, be it in rock and roll or when executing a really challenging routine.
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At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.
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I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.
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People win Oscars, and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. The moment I won the Oscar, I felt the teardown the very next day.
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I like characters who are contradictory.
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Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language.
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Is the casual objectification of women so commonplace that we should all just suck it up, roll over, and accept defeat? I hope not.
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I wanted to create a line for women and men alike that would encourage them to embrace the harmony and divine balance of sensuality and spirituality within all of us. Forplai is an opportunity to not only smell good and feel good, but to also take time to connect with the heavens above and the god in you.
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Not only does a journey transport us over enormous distances, it also causes us to move a few degrees up or down in the social scale. It displaces us physically and also for better or for worse takes us out of our class context, so that the colour and flavour of certain places cannot be dissociated from the always unexpected social level on which we find ourselves in experiencing them.
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Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience the male journey.
