A Quote by Lena Headey

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

Lena Headey

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Lena Headey
English - Actress
Born: October 3, 1973

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

Ellen Burstyn

Joan of Arc is my namesake. I played her character while still in my teens, at a music festival held at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Joan Van Ark

As I was researching, I was struck by how similar the Boxers were to Joan of Arc. Joan was basically a French Boxer. She was a poor teenager who wanted to do something about the foreign aggressors invading her homeland.

Gene Luen Yang

Joan of Arc should be played as a "pain in the ass" and how do I know she was a "pain in the ass"? ... because they burn her at the end.

Harold Clurman

I've always thought - and I don't even know if I'd be right for the part - that Jean Seberg would make a great biopic. She was in Jean-Luc Godard's 'Breathless,' she played Joan of Arc. She had this eventful and traumatic adulthood, she thought the FBI was after her, and she became a darling of the French New Wave.

Gillian Jacobs

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

Rudyard Kipling

I saw myself as Joan of Arc.

Maureen O'Hara

I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.

Sabine Baring-Gould

Now I know how Joan of Arc felt.

Steven Morrissey

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

Gracie Allen

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

Charles Bukowski

Joan of Arc' is about not feeling scared to call yourself beautiful. Why shouldn't you!?

Leigh-Anne Pinnock

By the time Joan of Arc was 16 and had proclaimed herself the virgin warrior sent by God to deliver France from her enemies, the English, she had been receiving the counsel of angels for three years.