Gwendoline Christie Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Bart The Bear was fantastic to work with. Absolutely brilliant and so, so good. The things that that bear could do to order! He was one of the best actors I’ve ever worked with.

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.

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

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

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.

As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity, and what it is to be a woman.

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

Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work – through my work – is really thrilling.

I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick.

I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He’s just so complex – a character that we love to hate – but it’s a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.

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.

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