Gwendoline Christie Quotes

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

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

I loved working with Michelle Fairley.

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

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

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

I would chance saying globally there is a feeling that female empowerment has, at last, become a topic that is fashionable, and more power to that.

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

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

I think everybody has the capacity for change.

I've always been able to look very different very easily.

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

I enjoy knocking around with the boys.

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

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

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

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.

I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick.

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

Rory McCann is an amazing actor and a very strong man.

I built stages and I did stage management - I think I built the sets twice, I happened to be good with a drill, which is a talent I didn't know I had.

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.

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

The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth.

I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

People come up to me and say, 'You look so much better in real life.'

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

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'm just not wearing any makeup. People thinking I'm wearing prosthetics of all sorts, I just don't have any makeup on.

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