Quotes from Gwendoline Christie

I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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 enjoy knocking around with the boys.

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

I loved working with Michelle Fairley.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 never wanted to be a fashion designer, although there is a book somewhere of fashion design I did for a collection when I was seven years old. I always wanted to be an actor.