124 Quotes by Lena Headey

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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 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.