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Lena Headey (Actor)

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 love

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 art

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

— Lena Headey purpose

'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 time

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

— Lena Headey think

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 gay

For me, horror movies are a real escape.

— Lena Headey horror

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 war

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

— Lena Headey time

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 good

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 self

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 winning

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 fantasy

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

— Lena Headey friends

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

— Lena Headey culture

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

— Lena Headey will

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 survival

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

— 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 love

You couldn't get less royal than me.

— Lena Headey ya

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 art

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 love

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 love

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 time

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 children

I have an internal protectiveness where its 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 Im like, It could happen and Im okay, Im prepared.

— Lena Headey love

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