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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. "

Gwendoline Christie

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

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

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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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" I loved working with Michelle Fairley. "

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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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" 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 been able to look very different very easily. "

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

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" I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches. "

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

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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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" I enjoy knocking around with the boys. "

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

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

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" I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' "

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

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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. "

Gwendoline Christie

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

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

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

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