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" My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.' "
Gwendoline Christie
You
Man
Always
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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 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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" 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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" If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life. "
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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 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 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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" I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. "
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" People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.' "
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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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" I think everybody has the capacity for change. "
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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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" Going to the gym is something I haven't done regularly since I was a child. "
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" The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that. "
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Rather
" '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 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 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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Feel
" I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look. "
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Look
Looking
" I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. "
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Women
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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'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'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 think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick. "
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