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" 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

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" 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

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" I think everybody has the capacity for change. "

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

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

Gwendoline Christie

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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. "

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

" I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look. "

Gwendoline Christie

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

" The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" Rory McCann is an amazing actor and a very strong man. "

" '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. "

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

" I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage. "

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

" 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. "

" I loved working with Michelle Fairley. "

" 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. "

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

Gwendoline Christie

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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. "

" Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child. "

" 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

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