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" Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet. "
Gwendoline Christie
Big
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Feet
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" The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state. "
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" People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.' "
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" 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
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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. "
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" The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or women with a lot of faults or women that we dislike intensely who are malicious. "
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" My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor. "
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" I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. "
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" 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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" 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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Me
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Reality
" If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life. "
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Amazing
" The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that. "
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" The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth. "
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Existence
Move
Past
" I think everybody has the capacity for change. "
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I Think
Think
Capacity
" I enjoy knocking around with the boys. "
Gwendoline Christie
Enjoy
Knocking
Around
" Going to the gym is something I haven't done regularly since I was a child. "
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Child
Something
Gym
" I like to be comfortable. And I don't like to have to worry about having to adjust things if things are too short; I don't want to feel self conscious, so I like to wear things that make me feel empowered. "
Gwendoline Christie
Worry
Want
Feel
" I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches. "
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Stunts
Come
My Own
" 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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Feeling
Become
Power
" I used to do karaoke with Patrick Woolf in a karaoke box, and he would ring me up and say, 'Come down and do karaoke with me here,' and then we'd sing Kate Bush songs and get really, really emotional and theatrical in the booth. "
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Emotional
Down
Me
" The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect. "
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Expect
You
Just
" Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work - through my work - is really thrilling. "
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You
Challenge
Hope
" I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look. "
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Like
Look
Looking
" 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. "
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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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" 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
" Rory McCann is an amazing actor and a very strong man. "
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" I absolutely love Oprah Winfrey. What a great woman and a great businesswoman. She seems to really campaign for an expansion of global consciousness. I think she's phenomenal. "
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She
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" I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick. "
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Red Lipstick
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" 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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" I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine. "
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Injury
Muscles
Did