Top 94 Quotes & Sayings by Lena Headey - Page 2

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

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

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.

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

You couldn't get less royal than me.

I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I dont want to be owned by anyone.

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

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?'

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Cersei in Game of Thrones is quite solid and stiff.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I have a playlist of farts on my phone.

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.