Top 35 Gwendoline Christie Quotes

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

I think everybody has the capacity for change.

I enjoy knocking around with the boys.

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

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.

I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick.

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

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 loved working with Michelle Fairley.

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.’

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

‘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.

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.

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

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

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