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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. "

Gwendoline Christie

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My Life

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" I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident! "

" I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge. "

" 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. "

" 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

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Down

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

" The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that. "

Gwendoline Christie

Far

Rather

" I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches. "

" 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. "

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

" Going to the gym is something I haven't done regularly since I was a child. "

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

" If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life. "

" 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. "

" My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal. "

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

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

Gwendoline Christie

Look

Looking

" I enjoy knocking around with the boys. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Gwendoline Christie

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Reality

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" I loved working with Michelle Fairley. "