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" 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. "

Gwendoline Christie

Loved

Freedom

Love

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

Gwendoline Christie

Far

Rather

" I enjoy knocking around with the boys. "

" The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state. "

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

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

" 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 describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.' "

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

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

Gwendoline Christie

Explore

Different

" I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends. "

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

" 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

" My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor. "

" 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

Woman

Want

" I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" '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. "

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

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

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

Gwendoline Christie

Look

Looking

" 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

Say

Reality

" 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 like to be comfortable. And I don't like to have to worry about having to adjust things if things are too short; I don't want to feel self conscious, so I like to wear things that make me feel empowered. "

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