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" Rory McCann is an amazing actor and a very strong man. "
Gwendoline Christie
Actor
Strong Man
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" I enjoy knocking around with the boys. "
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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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" 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 know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. "
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" My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.' "
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" Going to the gym is something I haven't done regularly since I was a child. "
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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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" 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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" I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. "
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" I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick. "
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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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" 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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" People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.' "
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Me
" I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. "
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Gender
Challenge
" 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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" My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor. "
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Actor
Martin
" The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect. "
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Expect
You
Just
" I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me. "
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Like
Explore
Different
" Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling. "
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Them
" 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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Bear
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Order
" 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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Nice
Women
Woman
" 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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Looking
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People
" I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches. "
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Stunts
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My Own
" My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal. "
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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 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 describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' "
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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
" 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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