Lena Headey Quotes

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.

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

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.

People do seem to think that I'm going to be some wicked witch, and then they're always surprised to find out I'm just a little clumsy nerd.

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

I do what I do; I cant control who thinks what.

I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career.

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

I have a playlist of farts on my phone.

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

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.

It's not socially acceptable to be a complete and utter manipulative cow.

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

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.

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

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.

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?'

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

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

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

I dont want to be owned by anyone.

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

Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time.

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.

'Dredd' was a weird, little, out-of-the-blue thing for me.

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

Cersei in Game of Thrones is quite solid and stiff.

I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.

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

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.

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

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

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

I almost never get recognised in the street.

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

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.

I'm sad I'm not in 'The Purge 2.'

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.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.