Top 35 Lena Headey Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Lena Headey

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

— Lena Headey

3. “As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.”

— Lena Headey

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

— Lena Headey

5. “I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.”

— Lena Headey

6. “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

7. “For me, horror movies are a real escape.”

— Lena Headey

8. “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

9. “I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.”

— Lena Headey

10. “I think I cry when I’m angry. I let it go that way.”

— Lena Headey

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

— Lena Headey

12. “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

13. “Having the tattoo itself is not really for the end result for me. I like having them done.”

— Lena Headey

14. “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

15. “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

16. “I carry about eight lip balms: Burts Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.”

— Lena Headey

17. “Shooting guns is not something I would do in my spare time.”

— Lena Headey

18. “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

19. “Getting older and having kids, you learn how to become less serious about it all.”

— Lena Headey

20. “Dredd was a weird little out-of-the-blue thing for me.”

— Lena Headey

21. “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.”

— Lena Headey

22. “Cersei in Game of Thrones is quite solid and stiff.”

— Lena Headey

23. “I’ve said from day one that I’ve got no problem with nudity. I’ve done it throughout my career.”

— Lena Headey

24. “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

25. “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

26. “It’s always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more.”

— Lena Headey

27. “Sometimes it’s a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.”

— Lena Headey

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

— Lena Headey

29. “I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.”

— Lena Headey

30. “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

31. “I enjoy what I do and it’s a great way to live your life.”

— Lena Headey

32. “I do what I do; I cant control who thinks what.”

— Lena Headey

33. “I almost never get recognised in the street.”

— Lena Headey

34. “I don’t think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.”

— Lena Headey

35. “Does our culture have a need for violence? I don’t know. I guess it’s a personal thing.”

— Lena Headey

36. “I have a playlist of farts on my phone.”

— Lena Headey

37. “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

38. “I hate being looked at. Can’t stand it. I know, I know – I picked the wrong career.”

— Lena Headey

39. “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.”

— Lena Headey