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

Gwendoline Christie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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" 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. "

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" I think everybody has the capacity for change. "

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

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