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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. "

Gwendoline Christie

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Gwendoline Christie

Woman

Want

" 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. "

" I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me. "

Gwendoline Christie

Explore

Different

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

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" '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 don't know, so much of women's femininity is tied up with their hair. "

Gwendoline Christie

Femininity

Women

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

Gwendoline Christie

Look

Looking

" I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress. "

" The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect. "

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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.' "

" 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. "

Gwendoline Christie

Emotional

Down

" I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow. "