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 DavisI just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.
Geena DavisThe more hours of television a girl watches, the fewer options she thinks she has in life.
Geena DavisWe are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.
Geena DavisI realized that in all the sectors of society where there's a huge gender disparity, the one place that can be fixed overnight is onscreen. You think about getting half of Congress, or the presidency ... It's going to take a while no matter how hard we work on it. But half of the board members and half of the CEOs can be women in the next movie somebody makes; it can be absolutely half.
Geena Davis