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" I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! "
Gwendoline Christie
Drama
Acting
Years
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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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" 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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" The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state. "
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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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Order
" 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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" 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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Woman
Ideas
" I think everybody has the capacity for change. "
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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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You
True
" I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. "
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Femininity
Women
Up
" I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage. "
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Alfie
Charles
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" I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches. "
Gwendoline Christie
Stunts
Come
My Own
" 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
" 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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She
Great
Woman
" I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me. "
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Like
Explore
Different
" I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. "
Gwendoline Christie
Sense
Challenge
Person
" 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
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Interesting
Good
Care
" I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow. "
Gwendoline Christie
Man
Fighting
Sword
" My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.' "
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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
" 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
Accept
Woman
Want
" 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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Happen
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" Rory McCann is an amazing actor and a very strong man. "
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" I enjoy knocking around with the boys. "
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Knocking
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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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Seems
World
Time
" My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal. "
Gwendoline Christie
Also
Height
Normal
" I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick. "
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Red Lipstick
Think
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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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Your
Look
Woman
" 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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You
Challenge
Hope
" 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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Me
Say
Reality