Quotes from Gwendoline Christie

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

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 think everybody has the capacity for change.

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.

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 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 love being tall. as you literally look at life from a different perspective: it's easier to breeze through life's turmoils; there's more room to breathe.

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.'

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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