Gwendoline 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

It's all about vanity, isn't it? I think it says something about people if they can't do it — Gwendoline Riley

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut. — Gwendoline Riley

I don't know what I'm playing at. I feel so romantic and furious all the time. — Gwendoline Riley

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

I thought that whoever she really was wasn't who she was living as. — Gwendoline Riley

Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship. — Gwendoline Riley

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

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

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

I loved working with Michelle Fairley. — Gwendoline Christie

If only i could get that under control then i feel like i could stay here a long time, watching the days leaking into the nights, swilling over the buildings, bleeding back again.
I could lie and not think of anything but ways to describe the sky, the clouds, the light. — Gwendoline Riley

Writing to you like this is the same as saying your name when I've woken up late, feeling sick, tasting rot. It's pointless, but it happens. — Gwendoline Riley

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

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

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

It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine. — 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 think everybody has the capacity for change. — 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 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

He lies down next to me.
He says, 'You know - you have a face to die for/'
'Well, don't die,' I say, we just met. — Gwendoline Riley

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

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

I said 'I was imagining you as a little boy, and as a teenager, and as an old man.'
He said: 'I was looking at you and thinking how young you look, and how old at the same time. — Gwendoline Riley

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

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

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

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

Damn it, I'm angry now. I do believe life is loss, I do, but my suffering-to-words-ratio was out of control: lying around composing nothing but these - righteous arias, month after month, these tawdry special pleas. — Gwendoline Riley

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

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

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

'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

I enjoy knocking around with the boys. — Gwendoline Christie

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

What they prefer to that is to find someone to have power over; someone to own and to bully, to smash and to waste. She wondered if she would ever be in love. — Gwendoline Riley

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

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

He says,'Why is it love, Esther? Why call it that?'
'Because. Why is what you do art? Because you say so. — Gwendoline Riley

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

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 think it ever ocurred to me to aim for happyness, though. I mean, do you do that? No, just try to get trough with as little pain as possible, that's the way ... — Gwendoline Riley

I think they're being cheap with their lives, that's why. So they seem ravenous for the worst thoughts I can have. — Gwendoline Riley

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

It's true about the running water. You can hear anything you want to in it. — Gwendoline Riley

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

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

He was a mystery. Intimacy is a mystery; maybe that's what he wanted. — Gwendoline Riley

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

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

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