Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches. "
Gwendoline Christie
Stunts
Come
My Own
Related Quotes:
" Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling. "
Gwendoline Christie
Get
Some
Them
" I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! "
Gwendoline Christie
Drama
Acting
Years
" My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.' "
Gwendoline Christie
You
Man
Always
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
You
Tall
Perspective
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Love
Character
Hate
" I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.' "
Gwendoline Christie
Nice
Women
Woman
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Me
Say
Reality
" 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
" Rory McCann is an amazing actor and a very strong man. "
Gwendoline Christie
Actor
Strong Man
Man
" I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. "
Gwendoline Christie
Femininity
Women
Up
" The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state. "
Gwendoline Christie
Show
Countryside
Natural
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Injury
Muscles
Did
" 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
" I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. "
Gwendoline Christie
Love
Gender
Challenge
" I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage. "
Gwendoline Christie
Alfie
Charles
Dance
" I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends. "
Gwendoline Christie
Love
Friends
Fun
" 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
Me
" If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life. "
Gwendoline Christie
Things
Were
Amazing
" Going to the gym is something I haven't done regularly since I was a child. "
Gwendoline Christie
Child
Something
Gym
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Day
Three
Train
" I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look. "
Gwendoline Christie
Like
Look
Looking
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Happen
Everything
Again
" I enjoy knocking around with the boys. "
Gwendoline Christie
Enjoy
Knocking
Around
" My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal. "
Gwendoline Christie
Also
Height
Normal
" People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.' "
Gwendoline Christie
Life
Look
Me
" 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
" I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' "
Gwendoline Christie
Space
Personal
Horse
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Looking
My Life
People
" 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