Quotes from Geena Davis

I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."

I used to be very unathletic. I was always so gangly and self-conscious about my height. I had convinced myself I was uncoordinated. And as a result, I didn't want to try stuff.

I just read that 81 percent of Americans are ready to vote for a woman. So it sounds like America is ready.

I never intended to become a data head. I could never have predicted it would play such an important role in my life. Yet here we are: My Institute on Gender in Media has sponsored the largest amount of research ever done on gender depictions in media, covering a 20-year-plus span.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

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.

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.

Women are in many ways second-class citizens in the United States in 2016, because of the way that we're portrayed in popular culture.

So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

I am completely obsessed with numbers and data. I have become a scientist in later life.

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.

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

I do have a very chill - I can watch all my movies. A lot of people don't like to watch their work. I watch everything. All the time.

It's a horrible and wonderful battle with yourself, to stay calm, stay in the moment. My coach said, "Stay here, not at the target. Don't be down there." It's why they call it the Zen art.

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

Film roles really did start to dry up when I got into my 40s.

I was tall from minute one. Always the tallest kid by a large margin. And my fantasy was to take up less space in the world.

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.