Lena Headey famous quotes

Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.
-- Lena Headey

#Doe #Needs #Culture

I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.
-- Lena Headey

#Love Is #Lazy #Way

I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.
-- Lena Headey

#Winning #Boys #Looks

I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.
-- Lena Headey

#Actors #Pants #Unprepared

For me, horror movies are a real escape.
-- Lena Headey

#Real #Horror

As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.
-- Lena Headey

#Teenager #Years #Lots Of Friends

I do what I do; I cant control who thinks what.
-- Lena Headey

#Thinking

There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.
-- Lena Headey

#Broken #Actors #Chance

Dredd was a weird little out-of-the-blue thing for me.
-- Lena Headey

#Blue #Littles

I almost never get recognised in the street.
-- Lena Headey

#Streets

I dont want to be owned by anyone.
-- Lena Headey

#Want

I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.
-- Lena Headey

#Boys #Lunch #White

That scene in 'The Purge' where my kids, Mary's kids, are in danger was really crazy for me, because I suddenly I have my methods as an actor, so I went to the place of 'If somebody came near my children, with bad intent?'
-- Lena Headey

#Children #Crazy #Kids

Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.
-- Lena Headey

#Kids #Getting Older #Serious

Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.
-- Lena Headey

#Tattoo #Done #Ends

Cersei in Game of Thrones is quite solid and stiff.
-- Lena Headey

#Games #Thrones

I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.
-- Lena Headey

#Thinking #Purpose #Defeat

It's amazing the things that you cry at. I cry when I smell my son's hair in the morning. We have a moment of peace and I'll be like, 'Ahhhh! How can you love this much?'
-- Lena Headey

#Morning #Son #Hair

I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.
-- Lena Headey

#Eight #Lips #Bees

I've said from day one that I've got no problem with nudity. I've done it throughout my career.
-- Lena Headey

#Careers #Done #Problem

It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.
-- Lena Headey

#Feelings #Greatest Love #Protect

Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.
-- Lena Headey

#Blood #Cost

I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.
-- Lena Headey

#People #Needs #Ensemble

I've got quite a big gay following. I played a lesbian prostitute in the TV series 'Band Of Gold' but I think my following really grew when I played one in the film 'Imagine Me & You,' with Piper Perabo.
-- Lena Headey

#Gay #Thinking #Gold

Getting the role in '300' saved me. I'd been out of work for 11 months after 'The Brothers Grimm.' Once the film came out and didn't do so well, the director Terry Gilliam blamed me for absolutely everything. It was pretty appalling, and I had started to wonder if I'd ever get another job again when I was asked to audition for '300.
-- Lena Headey

#Brother #Jobs #Directors

I'm just going to stay single forever. I could never live with anybody ever again.
-- Lena Headey

#Forever #Staying Single

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.
-- Lena Headey

#Dark #Losing Someone #Brain

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally,
-- Lena Headey

#Strong #Children #Two

I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.
-- Lena Headey

#Running #Shops

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.
-- Lena Headey

#Beautiful #Hate #Nice

Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.
-- Lena Headey

#Parent #Cold #Sometimes

Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.
-- Lena Headey

#Fun #Careers #Design

As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
-- Lena Headey

#Children #Two #Feet

I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.
-- Lena Headey

#Thinking #Let It Go #Way

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.
-- Lena Headey

#Vampire #Obsessed

I'm 40 next year and I'm very well aware that where I am now, it becomes a bit of a wilderness for actresses.
-- Lena Headey

#Years #Next Year #Actresses

I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?
-- Lena Headey

#Jobs #Thinking #Car

With fantasy and sci-fi, it's based in a real fandom. You're presenting to experts, and their source material is really important to them.
-- Lena Headey

#Real #Important #Experts

There is something in the act of having tattoos done that I love. It can be quite addictive. I've got a few on my back because my friend is an artist, and a few on my arms. Every time I pass a tattoo parlour, I think, 'Maybe just a tiny one.
-- Lena Headey

#Tattoo #Artist #Thinking

There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.
-- Lena Headey

#Monsters #Looks #Genius

I have a playlist of farts on my phone.
-- Lena Headey

#Phones #Fart #Playlists