Quotes by Gwendoline Christie

About Gwendoline Christie:

Gwendoline Christie is an English actress and model. She is known for portraying the warrior Brienne of Tarth in the HBO fantasy-drama series Game of Thrones, and voicing Lexi in the science fantasy series Wizards vs Aliens. In film, Christie started with minor roles in the Terry Gilliam films The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus and The Zero Theorem, and will appear as Commander Lyme in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, and as Captain Phasma in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
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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.

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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.

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

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

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I enjoy knocking around with the boys.

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

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

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

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

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

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I loved working with Michelle Fairley.

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

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

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

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

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I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameGwendoline Christie
  • DescriptionBritish actress
  • BornOctober 28, 1976
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionActor