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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. "

Gwendoline Christie

She

Great

Woman

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" I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me. "

Gwendoline Christie

Explore

Different

" 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. "

" I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. "

" 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. "

" I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow. "

" The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Gwendoline Christie

Say

Reality

" It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine. "

" I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. "

Gwendoline Christie

Femininity

Women

" I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! "

" My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal. "

" Going to the gym is something I haven't done regularly since I was a child. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends. "

" People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.' "

Gwendoline Christie

Life

Look

" I've always been able to look very different very easily. "

" 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. "

Gwendoline Christie

Emotional

Down

" If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life. "

" I train three, four, five times a week, protein six times a day, resistance training for at least 45 minutes... it's so very boring. It's really painful. It's laborious. "

" Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it's a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes. "

" I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. "

" The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth. "

" My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.' "

" I loved working with Michelle Fairley. "

" The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that. "

Gwendoline Christie

Far

Rather

" My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor. "