Christie: "I love a challenge. And I love defying limitation, gender stereotypes, and people's expectations of me as an actress."

Christie: "Part of the reason why I love acting is that you do hope that somehow your work will connect to people and somehow expand their consciousness somewhat, and being able to challenge notions of prejudice through work - through my work - is really thrilling."

Christie: "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."

Christie: "I think everybody has the capacity for change."

Christie: "The body is a tool to be used in its entirety, so the greater control you have over your body, the more precise your physical portrayal can be."

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

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

Christie: "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."

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

CHristie: "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."

Christie: "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."

Christie: "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."

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

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."

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

Christie: "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."

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

Christie: "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."

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

Christie: "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."

Christie: "I enjoy knocking around with the boys."

Christie: "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."

Christie: "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."