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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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" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick. "

" I enjoy knocking around with the boys. "

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

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

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

Gwendoline Christie

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

Gwendoline Christie

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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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Gwendoline Christie

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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