Lena Headey Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.”
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“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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“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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“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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“As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.”
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“I do what I do; I cant control who thinks what.”
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“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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“Dredd was a weird little out-of-the-blue thing for me.”
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“I almost never get recognised in the street.”
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“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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“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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“Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.”
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“Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.”
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“Cersei in Game of Thrones is quite solid and stiff.”
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“I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.”
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“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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“I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.”
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“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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“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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“Freedom isn't free at all, that it comes with the highest of costs. The cost of blood.”
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“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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“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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“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.”
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“I'm just going to stay single forever. I could never live with anybody ever again.”
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“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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“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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“I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.”
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“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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