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

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

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

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

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 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

'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

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'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 ...

Gwendoline Christie

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

Gwendoline Christie

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

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Author Bio

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