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" I loved working with Michelle Fairley. "
Gwendoline Christie
Michelle
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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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" 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 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'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.' "
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" '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. "
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" 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. "
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" I enjoy knocking around with the boys. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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Want
Feel
" 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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" I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look. "
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Looking
" I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. "
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Challenge
" 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've always been able to look very different very easily. "
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Able
Always
Been
" 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 describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' "
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" The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect. "
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" 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. "
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Day
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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 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. "
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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 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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" I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. "
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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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" If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life. "
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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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" I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. "
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" Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet. "
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Really
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