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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

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

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

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" I loved working with Michelle Fairley. "

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

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

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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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" 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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" 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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" The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect. "

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" I think everybody has the capacity for change. "

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

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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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" Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet. "

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

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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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" '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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" 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

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

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" I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. "

Gwendoline Christie

" 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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