Geena Davis Quotes
Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Let no one weep for me, or celebrate my funeral with mourning; for I still live, as I pass to and fro through the mouths of men.
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All the terrorists are basically migrants.
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My parents are very modern. My father is a cosmopolitan person. He always supported the fact that I will be an actress. There is nothing else I would do rather than being an actor.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Having achieved and accomplished love... man... has become himself, his tale is told.
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The mean pattern of educational and economic achievement within multi-racial countries such as Canada and the United States has increasingly been found to prove valid internationally.
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Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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If you're governor of a state, and you have nothing to say when the president attacks the people that you represent, you are complicit.
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I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.
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As women and men, we're not primed and taught to feel that women are as inspirational as men.
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Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.
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You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
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I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
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When people speak admiringly of a butch, what I see is someone who has taken on the best gendered characteristics of both woman and man, left a lot of the stuff born of misogyny and heterosexism behind, and walked forward into the world without apology.
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Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.
