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" People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.' "
Gwendoline Christie
Life
Look
Me
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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. "
Gwendoline Christie
You
Challenge
Hope
" '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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Seems
World
Time
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Love
Character
Hate
" 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
Injury
Muscles
Did
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Day
Three
Train
" My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor. "
Gwendoline Christie
Just
Actor
Martin
" 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
" Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet. "
Gwendoline Christie
Big
Really
Feet
" I quite like looking mucky; it's quite nice not having to care about how you look. "
Gwendoline Christie
Like
Look
Looking
" If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life. "
Gwendoline Christie
Things
Were
Amazing
" I don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. "
Gwendoline Christie
Femininity
Women
Up
" The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state. "
Gwendoline Christie
Show
Countryside
Natural
" I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches. "
Gwendoline Christie
Stunts
Come
My Own
" 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
" I've always been able to look very different very easily. "
Gwendoline Christie
Able
Always
Been
" I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! "
Gwendoline Christie
Drama
Acting
Years
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Lived
Relationship
She
" I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. "
Gwendoline Christie
Love
Gender
Challenge
" Going to the gym is something I haven't done regularly since I was a child. "
Gwendoline Christie
Child
Something
Gym
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Bear
Good
Order
" Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child. "
Gwendoline Christie
His
Deeply
Child
" 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. "
Gwendoline Christie
Feeling
Become
Power
" The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that. "
Gwendoline Christie
Far
Me
Rather
" My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal. "
Gwendoline Christie
Also
Height
Normal
" 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
" I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage. "
Gwendoline Christie
Alfie
Charles
Dance
" I enjoy knocking around with the boys. "
Gwendoline Christie
Enjoy
Knocking
Around
" My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.' "
Gwendoline Christie
You
Man
Always
" I think everybody has the capacity for change. "
Gwendoline Christie
I Think
Think
Capacity
" The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect. "
Gwendoline Christie
Expect
You
Just