Quotes from Lena Headey


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


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'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.


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


For me, horror movies are a real escape.


There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.


I always have scarves handy; they're my indulgence. I buy them at an L.A. shop called Lost & Found. I'll spray one with loads of my Byredo Gypsy Water perfume, put it on and be like, 'Ah, this feels good.'


I urge everyone - men, boys, women and girls - to join me in standing up for girls' rights with Plan U.K.


I'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.


I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.


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


Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.


It's a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love.


'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.


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.


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


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.


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


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.


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.