Geena Davis Quotes

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Childhood is a very insecure time. My parents get upset when I talk like this, but it's not about them. It's just about the state of childhood.

Geena Davis
I don't think childhood is everything it's cracked up to be. Some people have this idyllic vision of childhood as this innocent, wonderful time, or it's this time when you're a free spirit. I don't think that's true; I think it's stressful. And kids are cruel.

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I've always been so self-conscious about having something between my teeth. I used to not want to eat with somebody I didn't know in case I would get lettuce in my teeth and then they would hate me.

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I think a lot of people in this business do believe that you have to be kind of tortured — you know, there's no such thing as a genius without the tortured part. I don't think that's necessarily true.

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There is just so much pressure on women to retain their youthfulness, instead of gracefully aging.

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I see that happening with a lot of women when they get older. They get plastic surgery and they just get slightly desperate.

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I think there is an obsession in our culture to try and label people something. There is some urge to define what people are. They want to wrap you up.

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I had my first boyfriend when I was eighteen. I was a late, ah, bloomer, as far as that goes. I was very tall and felt very awkward. My senior year I was a foreign exchange student in Sweden. People say, 'Why did you pick Sweden?' It was for the sex.

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There does seem to be a trend to glamorize childhood as this only perfect time, and it's been my experience that adulthood has been preferable.

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I want to express myself and feel free, and not hamper myself by fear. I've done that enough. I don't want to do that anymore. I don't want to worry about what people are going to label me as.

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As I change and evolve as a person, I like to reflect that in my parts. Parts that are more like what I'm working toward appeal to me more.

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People think of childhood as this extraordinary time of freedom, but it's not that. Being an adult is free, because you're responsible for yourself now. You get to make your own decisions. That's freedom: being in charge of yourself.

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I don't want to put a label on myself, and I don't like it when other people do.

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The concept that you have to be unhealthy to be creative is not true," she insists. "And if it is, I then frankly choose health. It's more important to me.

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Go ahead and think whatever you want. This is just me. You can figure it out. It's not my job to sell America on who I am. My job is to be in movies, and I am hopeful that people like my work. I'm not running for office.

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If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. I really feel like that. I think that life is all about taking risks, even if it's something as silly as a dress.

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I found all this stuff I did when I was a kid — sketches I made of dresses. I hadn't remembered this about myself. There are all these crazy designs for clothes — page after page of books filled with them.

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Women are fabulous when they have some wrinkles and some experience.

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