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" As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman. "
Gwendoline Christie
Someone
Woman
Ideas
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" I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that. "
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" 'Game of Thrones' is a fantasy show not dedicated to any specific time, but it seems to exist in sort of a 1400s medieval fantasy world, and in that setting, I wouldn't have had a six-pack. "
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Time
" I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends. "
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Fun
" There's so many parts of my life that I've struggled with - that so many millions of others struggled with - about being an outsider, about feeling ugly, about having to overcome looking different to other people. "
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Looking
My Life
People
" I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' "
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Personal
Horse
" Bart The Bear was fantastic to work with. Absolutely brilliant and so, so good. The things that that bear could do to order! He was one of the best actors I've ever worked with. "
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Bear
Good
Order
" I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships. "
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" I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow. "
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Fighting
Sword
" I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. "
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Challenge
Person
" I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage. "
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Alfie
Charles
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" I don't really have any interest in playing the same part again and again. Let's just keep everything crossed that doesn't happen. "
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Happen
Everything
Again
" I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me. "
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Explore
Different
" The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that. "
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Far
Me
Rather
" Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child. "
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His
Deeply
Child
" Going to the gym is something I haven't done regularly since I was a child. "
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Child
Something
Gym
" My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor. "
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Just
Actor
Martin
" What I've always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has - the discipline and expression - letting you dance. "
Gwendoline Christie
Loved
Freedom
Love
" I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug. "
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Love
Character
Hate
" People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.' "
Gwendoline Christie
Life
Look
Me
" I enjoy knocking around with the boys. "
Gwendoline Christie
Enjoy
Knocking
Around
" I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look. "
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Like
Look
Looking
" I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches. "
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Stunts
Come
My Own
" I think everybody has the capacity for change. "
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I Think
Think
Capacity
" I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! "
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Drama
Acting
Years
" Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet. "
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Big
Really
Feet
" My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal. "
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Also
Height
Normal
" I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick. "
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Red Lipstick
Think
Lipstick
" I love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to breeze through life's turmoils; there's more room to breathe. "
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You
Tall
Perspective
" I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. "
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Gender
Challenge
" Vita Sackville-West is one of my favorite female icons. She was a writer and a prolific gardener, but she also had a relationship with Virginia Woolf, and she was married to Sir Harold Nicolson. She was a woman who lived outside of norms. "
Gwendoline Christie
Lived
Relationship
She