About Lena Headey: Lena Headey is an English actress.
A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel.
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 ...
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?'
I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.
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.
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?'
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.
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.
I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.
Does our culture have a need for violence? I don't know. I guess it's a personal thing.
I think I cry when I'm angry. I let it go that way.
Sometimes it's a bizarre, fairly cold, and horrifying thing to be a parent.
I look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.
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.
As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.
I don't think you should feel guilty about pleasure. Defeats the purpose.
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.
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?'
Cersei in 'Game of Thrones' is quite solid and stiff.
I could quite happily run a florist or a bake shop.
