![]() You have to have tenacity, to believe that everybody is gonna be wrong, that you’re gonna be the one that gets singled out. “You have to be tough to get anywhere in this industry. My job is to be in movies, and I am hopeful that people like my work. ![]() It’s not my job to sell America on who I am. I don’t want to worry about what people are going to label me as.” “I want to express myself and feel free, and not hamper myself by fear. “What I didn’t realize until much later, in hindsight, was I had subconsciously been choosing projects where the woman was in charge of her own destiny.” And I have to be careful what I get involved in.” “Everything I do, I want to take it to the farthest possible degree. ![]() But I learned early on never to get invested in what will happen.” All I can do is take responsibility for doing my best and making sensible choices. I want to do parts that I feel strongly about and that I think I can do a good job with. There’s no point in being cautious, because then you don’t get a chance to do stuff you really want to do. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don’t get to do anything.” My mother’s favorite expression when I was growing up was, ‘Well, there’s no point telling you not to do it because you’ll do it anyway.’ I was very willful and stubborn and determined about things and I’m sure that’s bled over in my career.” If I decide on something I really like to make it happen. “I’m definitely highly driven, about everything. My aunt broadened my understanding of what women could be like and do and that there’s a big world out there. She was different than anybody in my family on either side. “I was really lucky that I had an aunt who was very inspiring to me. And they were so removed from anything to do with show business-my dad built our house and my mom grew our food.” “When it came time for college, I told my parents I was going to major in acting. But I was very confident, very sure that’s what I wanted to do. I don’t know what I saw at three years old that would make me decide that’s a job and I want to have that job. “I told my parents when I was three that I wanted to be in movies. I’ve always had a picture in my head of who I think I really am.” “I knew I wanted to have self-esteem, and I was going to get it somehow. The thing was, I was convinced that I was tricking everyone into thinking I was attractive.” I was never anything like a supermodel, but I made a living at it for a couple years. I broke into acting as a model in New York. “I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.” “I had very, very bad self-esteem-that I was a fake, everybody was going to find out, that I didn’t deserve to have success, just about my looks and really, really bad self-esteem. “Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. “It’s important to try to be awake and recognize situations where you are giving up some of your power or authority.” “Don’t create a problem that you need to fix later on.” I think that life is all about taking risks, even if it’s something as silly as a dress.” “If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. Who does not risk, risks everything. You can reinvent yourself and find positions of more control and power in your life.” “There’s life after whatever you’re doing. People want to satisfy every possible dream or expectation they could have.” “I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, ‘If a person can do it, I can do it.'” Geena Davis quotes: on overcoming low self-esteem, how she picks her roles, having nerves of steel, and more.
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