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Daily Inspiration Quote by Geena Davis

"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"

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There is a quiet flex in the sheer matter-of-factness here: Geena Davis treating “becoming” animated as just another career waypoint, like switching genres or formats. The line works because it collapses the hierarchy that still lingers in Hollywood between “real” acting and animation. She’s not defending the medium or selling it as novelty; she’s letting delight do the argument. “It was actually fun” reads like a small corrective to the assumption that voice work is lesser, easier, or somehow less embodied.

The phrasing also turns celebrity into a medium-specific object. “To see myself drawn” isn’t just vanity; it’s an admission that a public persona can be translated, copied, and reinterpreted without the original body present. When Davis says she’s “become an animated character,” she’s acknowledging how IP culture digests performers: you play a role, the role becomes a brand, and eventually the brand can outlive the actor’s physical participation. The joke is lightly existential.

Context matters, too: Davis is a performer whose image has long carried meaning beyond individual projects, tied to questions of representation and agency for women on screen. In that light, the pleasure she takes in being “drawn” is more than a behind-the-scenes anecdote. It’s a claim to authorship over her own iconography, a moment of control in an industry that routinely redraws actresses without asking.

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Davis, Geena. (2026, January 17). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-played-this-character-twice-in-live-action-and-62199/

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Davis, Geena. "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." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-played-this-character-twice-in-live-action-and-62199/.

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"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." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-played-this-character-twice-in-live-action-and-62199/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Geena Davis (born January 21, 1956) is a Actress from USA.

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