Lena Headey Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
-
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
-
I've had self-esteem issues for a really, really long time. Plenty of people think I'm ugly, and plenty of people don't. But there's a moment when I'm modeling where I forget about my self-esteem issues and focus on what the photographer's telling me - and I feel pretty. And in that sense, it's selfish.
-
Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
-
I'm interested in playing, not working.
-
I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
-
China needs a powerful Europe, but Europe can only be strong if each and every one of its members attains rapid economic development.
-
I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
-
I love rock n' rollers.
-
I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
-
I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
-
If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
-
As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
-
I have seen that our best presidents were the do-nothing presidents: Millard Fillmore, Warren G. Harding. When you have a president who does things, we are all in serious trouble. If he does anything at all, if he gets up at night to go the bathroom, somehow, mystically, trouble will ensue.
-
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
-
No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
-
Don't be afraid to look silly.
-
I have personally seen what a devastating medical condition can cost.
-
When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
-
I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.
-
You can find just about everything on my iPod from Eminem to Zac Brown to Justin Timberlake to One Direction. Everything is on there.
-
It would have been a very, very good thing if the next election after Margaret went we had lost.
-
History in Burckhardt's words is 'the record of what one age finds worthy of note in another.' The past is intelligible to us only in light of the present; and we can fully understand the present only in light of the past. To enable man to understand the society of the past and to increase his mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.
-
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.
