Geena Davis Movie Quotes & Sayings

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

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. — Geena Davis

Nobody ever said, "Well if you want to be in movies, you should go to L.A." Everybody else was going to New York. So I went to New York with them. And then I was like, "How am I supposed to get a movie?" — Geena Davis

My whole theory about why I couldn't find any creators who realized they were leaving out female characters, is because they were raised on the same ratio. I just heard someone the other day call it either "smurfing a movie," which is when there's one female character or "minioning a movie" which is when there's no female characters. — Geena Davis

Ridiculously - fortunately - my first job was with Dustin Hoffman. I had a little part in this movie called Tootsie. And he taught me how to watch dailies. That it was very important. — Geena Davis

My scripts are always filled with notes. I like to just analyze everything from the point of view of the whole picture, of the movie, my whole picture. — Geena Davis