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• When I started watching Breaking Bad, I binge-watched it. I thought it was so good that I started to cry. It's the only time in my life I've been completely jealous, the only time. I was like, [imitates crying] "I want to do what Bryan Cranston gets to do. I want a part like that." [both laugh] Isn't that pathetic?

  Geena Davis

  Jealous, Laughing, Want

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Even though I was 34 or 35 or something. I was like, “People can do that? Women can actually just say what they think?” It was an extraordinary experience to do that movie with her because every day was a lesson in how to just be yourself.

  Geena Davis

  Being Yourself, Thinking, People

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• When I started out, maybe because I did Thelma & Louise early on - but people were always asking, "Are things better for women now?" I would say, "Yeah, I think so. It seems like it." Then a few years in, I started saying, "I think so. I'm getting a lot of good parts, but I don't know." Then eventually, I was like, "Google it. I don't know, but it doesn't seem great."

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Years, People

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

  Geena Davis

  Girl, Kids, Space

  "Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media" by Sydney Levine, www.indiewire.com. March 4, 2015.

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• When I got pregnant, I told [Susan Sarandon ]. She said, "All right. I'm gonna tell you the thing to do when you're giving birth: Push like you're trying to win a prize, like you want to be the best patient he's ever had. He's going to give you a prize for winning that." So I did. [The doctor] said, "You are probably the best pusher I've had as a patient."

  Geena Davis

  Winning, Doctors, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

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

  Geena Davis

  Leadership, Country, World

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• I'm so not a party person. I'm so not social and don't go to parties.

  Geena Davis

  Party, Social, Persons

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• The most common occupation for women in G rated films is royalty - which is a great gig, if you can get it.

  Geena Davis

  Family, Work, Reality

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• I had a deliberate plan to get into movies by becoming a model, so I went to New York and got a job pretending to be a mannequin in store windows.

  Geena Davis

  Jobs, New York, Becoming

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• 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.

  Geena Davis

  Jobs, War, Men

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• Any movie you see, if Tom Cruise is in an action movie or whatever it is, The Avengers, there's going to be a kick-ass female character. Usually one. And there's a term for this, but I don't know what it is. But someone's coined a term where there's one female character who's incredibly tough and strong and just as good as the guys at whatever it is they’re doing, and usually wearing black, skin-tight clothes, and [she] has no personality whatsoever, and is not funny.

  Geena Davis

  Strong, Character, Wearing Black

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• My point was the world is missing female characters. A lot of times there is one female character, maybe even a cool one, maybe even an important one. But where are all the rest?

  Geena Davis

  Character, Missing, Important

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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

  Geena Davis

  Character, Thinking, Males

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• I just started asking my friends if they had noticed. None of them - feminists, mothers, daughters - noticed until I pointed it out. Then I decided to bring it up within the industry. I knew a lot of people, so I'd say, "Have you ever noticed how few female characters there are in kids movies?" when I met a director, a producer, whatever. And they said, "Oh, but that's not true anymore."

  Geena Davis

  Mother Daughter, Kids, Character

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• My daughter was a toddler. I had no idea there was anything wrong with kids' media.I started watching little preschool shows with her or G-rated videos or whatever; I couldn't believe what I was seeing, that there seemed to be far more male characters than female characters in what we make for little kids. It was just a shock.

  Geena Davis

  Daughter, Believe, Kids

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• In advertisements for your favorite products, are women denigrated or objectified in some way? All of that is important. I would rewrite my kids' books, I would write it in the books for the babysitter!

  Geena Davis

  Book, Writing, Important

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women.

  Geena Davis

  Leaving, Actors, Entertainment

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

  Geena Davis

  Play, Problem, Flaws

  "Comic-Con 2016 Interviews: Geena Davis, Ben Daniels, Alfonso Herrera & Jeremy Slater Discuss the Upcoming Fox Series THE EXORCIST". Interview with Heather Wixson, dailydead.com. July 29, 2016.

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• I don't really bust anybody publicly. It's much more efficient if I can impact the creators. So that's what we do. It's had a great impact.

  Geena Davis

  Impact, Creator, Efficient

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• My knowledge of horror films is pathetic because I can't really watch them.

  Geena Davis

  Watches, Horror, Film

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I'm such a wuss. But I know that The Exorcist [1973] is one of the best and most famous of [horor movies].

  Geena Davis

  Exorcist, Knows

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I meet Susan [Saradon], and she was amazing. We sit down to go through the script [Thelma & Louise]. I swear, I think it was page one - she says, "So my first line, I don't think we need that line. Or we could put it on page two. Cut this ..." And I was just like ... My jaw was to the ground.

  Geena Davis

  Cutting, Thinking, Two

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I'm the mother of two daughters, one of whom is going to get possessed. It's really spooky and great. I'm shooting it right now. That's why I'm in Chicago. I wanted to tell you about the other direction that this trying-to-get-more-female-characters thing has taken, which is that I launched my own film festival last year.

  Geena Davis

  Daughter, Mother, Taken

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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• I was 16 or something. [My aunt] broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there's a big world out there. So she had a huge impact on me.

  Geena Davis

  Aunt, Impact, Understanding

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

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