Geena Davis Quotes

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

There are wonderfully talented actresses. It's a really rich field. There isn't as rich a field of material.

Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.

Usually, if there is a woman's part in a piece, there's only one, so you've got no other actresses to work with.

I think it's absolutely about time that we have as many female leads as male. It's a very exciting time to be an actress.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

I want there to be tons and tons and tons and tons of movies starring women.

The list of women to potentially be on a major party ticket, in both parties, is embarrassingly short.

Being a woman, an actor in Hollywood, I know that there are certain parts I won't often get a chance to do.

We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.

When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.

We have to change a norm that has been in existance for years .... If we [female actresses] aren't paid equally, why would we be expected to be treated equally.

I feel like every year there's a thing about 'not enough roles for ladies!' and, then, also an article, like 'The Year of The Woman.' I think that we all just know in our hearts they're underrepresented. But that doesn't mean that there aren't amazing moments.

Disney has proved without a shadow of a doubt that movies with a female lead work.

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

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

I think there is an enormous appetite for great roles for women.

I remember, the first time it struck me is I was an econ major at Stanford as an undergrad, and it struck me how few women were econ majors back in the '70s. And then in business school how few women... And even then, I thought, 'Gosh, this is really unfortunate.'

For every movie that you go see, how many leading male roles are there in any given movie, and how many leading female roles are there? There may be 5 or 6 really good roles for guys and maybe one for a woman. And it doesn't even matter if you're 25. That's just the logistics.

For me, I was always the only woman in my cohort, first as a mechanical engineering undergraduate student, then as a chemical engineering graduate student. There were very few women getting degrees in those fields at the time. My role models were men - great men role models.

We have so many male superstars, but there are just a few female actors who have attained that status. It is not only because of the industry; it's in the society.

The absence of women within STEM programs is not only progressive, it is persistent - despite more than 20 years of programs intended to encourage the participation of girls and women.