A biography for Gwendoline Christiehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.'”
“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.”
“I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident!”
“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 enjoy knocking around with the boys.”
“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.”
“The beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth.”
“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 love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.”
“Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.”
“The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect.”
“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.”
“If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life.”
“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.”
“Rory McCann is an amazing actor and a very strong man.”
“My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.”
“I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.”
“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.”