Gwendoline Christie Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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

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

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

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

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

I loved working with Michelle Fairley. — Gwendoline Christie

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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

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. — 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. — Gwendoline Christie

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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

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

I heard that a lot and I just sort of thought, the world was an even more interesting place than the people who were making the decisions were perhaps interpreting it to be. — Gwendoline Christie

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

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

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

They told me I would find it difficult to find work because of the way that I look and they weren't wrong. [laughs] I thought, "Well, I'll prove you wrong" because I genuinely believed that the world was a more diverse place than they perhaps viewed it to be. — Gwendoline Christie

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

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.' — Gwendoline Christie

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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

I think everybody has the capacity for change. — Gwendoline Christie

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

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

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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

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

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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

I enjoy knocking around with the boys. — Gwendoline Christie

'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. — Gwendoline Christie

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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

I did rhythmic gymnastics and I absolutely adored it. I was in the squad for Sussex. I wasn't stupendous, but it was something that I was good at and I really loved the combination of discipline and expression. That, to me, was just dreamy. — Gwendoline Christie

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

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

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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

I had done lots of theater and I really wanted to do screen work. I said to my agent, "Look, I really want to do screen work and I want to concentrate on that now" and he said, "Well, it's going to be tough for you." — Gwendoline Christie

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. — Gwendoline Christie

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

I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick. — Gwendoline Christie

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

The freedom to be someone else entirely and be different versions of something. That's what I loved and I loved watching movies and I loved watching television, I loved reading books. That kind of escapism into another world was my favorite thing. — Gwendoline Christie

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