Quotes from Lena Headey

I would love to work with Shane Meadows - great director.

You couldn't get less royal than me.

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

I have a scary side of me.

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

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

I'm dreadful at schmoozing at Hollywood parties.

I carry about eight lip balms: Burt's Bees, Rosebud Salve, Eos.

I'd love to do a comedy. Umm, I don't know when that will happen - maybe when I'm, like, 80 or something. But yeah, I'd love to. I'm just waiting for the right person to see my hilarious nature and offer me a comedy.

People who never get anxious always amaze me. The world could be breaking up, and they're saying, 'Everything's fine!'

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 like to keep my personal life private.

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 miss that London thing of walking outside and bumping into mates and going, 'Do you want to get a pint?'

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?'

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.

I drink a lot of coffee.

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

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

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

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

I'm sad I'm not in 'The Purge 2.'

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