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" 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
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" As a woman, we all want to feel attractive. We all want to feel that we're making the very best of ourselves so we can accept ourselves. "
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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 enjoy knocking around with the boys. "
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" It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine. "
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" 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 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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" I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' "
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" 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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" 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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Sword
" My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.' "
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" I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends. "
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" I loved working with Michelle Fairley. "
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" Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling. "
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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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" 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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" 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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