Lena Headey Quotes & Sayings

People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!' — Lena Headey

There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean. — Lena Headey

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

I was never one of the cool kids who read '2000 AD.' — Lena Headey

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

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

I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing. — Lena Headey

I'm sad I'm not in 'The Purge 2.' — Lena Headey

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

I took up boxing as a fitness thing. I got obsessed, and I would go every day when I wasn't working. It's just an insane sport when you get into it. — Lena Headey

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

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

One day I was in school, and the next I was acting opposite Jeremy Irons. That's how quickly it happened. I was in class and then working with Sir Anthony Hopkins. — Lena Headey

I carry about eight lip balms: Burt's Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos. — Lena Headey

I like to keep my personal life private. — Lena Headey

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

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

I don't want to be owned by anyone. — Lena Headey

There is always that thought that you might get stuck with a character. But there's always the notion that every character is always evolving. — Lena Headey

Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time. I really don't understand why Americans can purchase guns so easily and why they use them for sporting purposes. — Lena Headey

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

I'd love to do a comedy. Umm, I don't know when that will happen - maybe when I'm, like, 80 or something. But yeah, I'd love to. I'm just waiting for the right person to see my hilarious nature and offer me a comedy. — Lena Headey

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

Really, I still just think of myself as a Northerner, ultimately. It's in my DNA. I'll always have those Northern qualities. We can be mischievous. We can be bold. — Lena Headey

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

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

I miss that London thing of walking outside and bumping into mates and going, 'Do you want to get a pint?' — Lena Headey

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

I'd like to play Walter White, but I guess that's been done. — Lena Headey

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

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

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty. — Lena Headey

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

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

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

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

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

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

I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what. — Lena Headey

'Lost Boys' is one of my all-time faves. I just thought it would be great to be a vampire. I remember this movie called 'Once Bitten,' which is about an '80s sort of power girl who became a vampire and was really, like, sexy. Hair like she was from 'Dallas,' shoulder pads, big earrings. — Lena Headey

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

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

I urge everyone - men, boys, women and girls - to join me in standing up for girls' rights with Plan U.K. — Lena Headey

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

You couldn't get less royal than me. — Lena Headey

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

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

A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel. — Lena Headey

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

I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average. — Lena Headey

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

I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch. — Lena Headey

Nothing's ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it. — Lena Headey

I always have scarves handy; they're my indulgence. I buy them at an L.A. shop called Lost & Found. I'll spray one with loads of my Byredo Gypsy Water perfume, put it on and be like, 'Ah, this feels good.' — Lena Headey

I drink a lot of coffee. — Lena Headey

I have a scary side of me. — Lena Headey

I find 'Chainsaw' to be a very relaxing film. — Lena Headey

The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it. — Lena Headey

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

I've been working a long time, and mostly European films. — Lena Headey

I enjoy what I do and it's a great way to live your life. — Lena Headey

I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties. — Lena Headey

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

I'm a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don't know why - self-expression, I guess. — Lena Headey

It's always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more. — Lena Headey

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

I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director. — Lena Headey

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

I usually bring along a bottle of kombucha, thinking, 'This will be really good for me.' But I never actually drink it. The fermented mushroom-y flavor is too intense for me. — Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich. — Lena Headey

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

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

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

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. They'll come up and ask: 'so when you turned your head slightly in that scene, what were you thinking?' — Lena Headey

Some 'Terminator' fans are outraged that I'm playing Sarah Connor. They think I'm not muscly enough. To be honest, I'm a little tired of the comparisons to Linda Hamilton. I know she will always be the original Sarah Connor, but when people see what I bring to the role, they will look at her with new eyes. — Lena Headey

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

One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary. — Lena Headey

I love the chance to train with someone like Mark Twight. — Lena Headey