Geena Davis

“Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.”

“I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, o...”

“Somebody warned me early on to be very careful about brushing up against the chocolate.”

“One thing I always want to clear up was the notion that I 'took time off to have a baby.' A lot people leapt to that conclusion because becoming a parent happened to coincide with film roles...”

“I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of sch...”

“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.”

“It's a fantasy that we could have a president who could actually make choices based on what's right, rather than having to weigh the political fallout. But that's sort of what we're showing....”

“There are woefully few women CEOs in the world, but there can be lots of them in films.”

“I was averaging about one movie a year my whole career, and that was because I'm fussy. I probably could have done more.”

“I had one date in high school - that was it, and he didn't ask me out again, because I was taller than everybody. I was very gangly and awkward, and I wore weird clothes that I made.”

“When I was first starting out was also when I first started really paying attention to the Oscars and stuff like that. And I remember thinking, 'Wow, everything is great for women in Hollywo...”

“My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.”

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

“I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landl...”

“I played this character twice in live action, and now I've become an animated character. It was actually fun to see myself drawn - I've never been a drawn character before.”

“The big takeaway I got from 'Thelma & Louise' was the reaction of women who had seen the movie being so profound, so different. It was overwhelming, and it made me realise how few opportunit...”

“Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.”

“The motto of my institute has always been, 'If they can see it, they can be it.' And it's literally true. If we show something on-screen, it will change what happens in real life.”

“Certainly 'Wonder Woman' needed to be made, and I'm so beyond thrilled with how it came out. I met Patty Jenkins, and I told her, 'I'm sure you're going to make a sequel, and if you need any...”

“Rosie knows how to play ball. She's an athlete, for sure.”