Geena Davis

Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience the male journey. ”

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

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. ”

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 schools are not in compliance. ”

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

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 Hollywood, because Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Jessica Lange, Sally Field - they're all doing incredible work.' ”

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. ”

I was really lucky that I had an aunt who was very inspiring to me. She was different than anybody in my family on either side. ”

This dapper little mouse that wore such cute clothes and said such interesting things, yeah. I thought it was a great idea to have a mouse like that in your family, so now I get to see what it was like. ”

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