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I loved working with Michelle Fairley.
I think everybody has the capacity for change.
I think everyone loves a slash of red lipstick.
Rory McCann is an amazing actor and a very strong man.
My pseudonym is 'George R. R. Martin.' That guy's just an actor.
I do all my own stunts and come away with bruises and scratches.
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.
If I were amazing with a sword, I wouldn't care about the tender things in life.
I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.
The whole format of 'Game of Thrones' is that you just don't know what to expect.
I describe my personal style as 'mythic space horse with chocolate box tendencies.'
My parents treated my height as a wonderful thing to be celebrated, but also normal.
The fantasy genre has so far rather embraced me, and I'm incredibly grateful for that.
Terry Gilliam is someone I'd always deeply admired. I saw his films when I was a child.
I like to explore characters who are very different to me, or varied parts are very similar to me.
I only ever wanted to be a model. This acting thing - three years of drama school - is an accident!
I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage.
It's very hard as a tall woman to remove your deliberately pronounced feminine aspects and look more masculine.
Occasionally I get messages from women saying that I've brought them some joy, and that's unbelievably thrilling.
Everyone has something that defines them, whether they're wildly intelligent or whether they have really big feet.
I absolutely love to relax and have fun. I like socializing; I like chatting. I like dancing, mixing with friends.
I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.
I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress.
I'm just not wearing any makeup. People thinking I'm wearing prosthetics of all sorts, I just don't have any makeup on.
I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.
The countryside in Belfast is beautiful. No technical wizardry is needed to show quite how glorious it is in its natural state.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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."