Top 78 Lena Headey Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. If I was into politics, I would be rich.
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#3. 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.
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#4. I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.
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#5. 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.
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#6. I would do anything I could to try to make sure that Lena Headey wins an Emmy.
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#7. As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.
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#8. 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.
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#9. I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.
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#10. 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.
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#11. Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.
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#12. 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.
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#13. I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.
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#14. I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.
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#15. I do what I do; I can't control who thinks what.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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?'
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#18. 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.
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#19. '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.
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#20. I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.
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#21. I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter Dinklage.
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#22. I almost never get recognised in the street.
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#23. I love the chance to train with someone like Mark Twight.
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#24. Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.
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#25. Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.
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#26. For me, horror movies are a real escape.
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#27. I find 'Chainsaw' to be a very relaxing film.
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#30. I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.
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#31. I'm just going to stay single forever. I could never live with anybody ever again.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.'
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#34. 'Dredd' was a weird little out-of-the-blue thing for me.
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#35. 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.
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#37. I carry about eight lip balms: Burt's Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.
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#38. I enjoy what I do and it's a great way to live your life.
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#39. 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.
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#40. I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.
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#41. I urge everyone - men, boys, women and girls - to join me in standing up for girls' rights with Plan U.K.
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#42. One day I can be ecstatically up, and the next, I can feel this real blankness, a deadness almost, which is scary.
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#43. 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.'
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#44. Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.
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#45. I'd like to play Walter White, but I guess that's been done.
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#46. I miss that London thing of walking outside and bumping into mates and going, 'Do you want to get a pint?'
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#47. I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.
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#48. 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.
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#49. I was never one of the cool kids who read '2000 AD.'
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#50. I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.
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#51. It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.
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#52. 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.
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#53. 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?'
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#54. I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.
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#55. 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.
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#56. I like to keep my personal life private.
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#57. Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.
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#58. Cersei in 'Game of Thrones' is quite solid and stiff.
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#59. I'm a tomboy. I used to get into a lot of fights. Don't know why - self-expression, I guess.
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#60. I think I look slightly like a horse. Hand on heart, I think I'm pretty average.
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#61. Nothing's ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it.
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#62. I've said from day one that I've got no problem with nudity. I've done it throughout my career.
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#63. The more you love something, the worse you tend to audition. If you don't really care about something, you kind of nail it.
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#64. I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.
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#65. I have a playlist of farts on my phone.
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#66. People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!'
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#67. 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.
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#69. 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?'
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#70. I've been working a long time, and mostly European films.
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#71. 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.
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#73. 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.
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#74. Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel.
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#78. 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?'
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