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

Gwendoline Christie

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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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" 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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" Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling. "

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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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