Gwendoline Christie

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

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.

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

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

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 beauty of existence is that we get past the superficialities and material world and hopefully move into - lord - hopefully a bit of depth.

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

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've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found exciting - the work of David Lynch, the work of Tim Burton. But for me, I also love those things that are absolutely about human relationships.

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

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

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