Lena Headey Quotes

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

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Play

• As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Remember
  • Forever
  • I Can

• Religion is induced insanity.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Religion
  • Insanity
  • Induced

• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Myself
  • Place
  • Broke

• Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

  

  H. C. Bailey
  • Faith
  • Reason
  • Higher

• No matter how senior you get in an organization, no matter how well you're perceived to be doing, your job is never done.

  

  Abagail Johnson
  • Done
  • Job
  • Organization

• Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Home
  • Man
  • Wisdom

• I didn't go to school a lot.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Go
  • Lot

• In the finance world, we used to spend all of our time looking backwards, reporting on what happened. Can I book it? What are the numbers? Now it's about looking into the future. It's about planning and integration. The role of finance is now that of a partner in the business.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Time
  • World
  • Business

• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Present
  • Influence
  • More

• I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Man
  • Know
  • Human

• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Country
  • Stop
  • Drug

• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• As a little kid, I watched hip hop get created. So it's an honour for me to represent the Bronx, the motherland of hip hop.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Kid
  • Created
  • Represent

• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Day
  • Revolution

• Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Always
  • Feel
  • Said

• Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Health
  • Myself
  • Wise

• His thoughts were blown and scattered like leaves;He thought of the pail . . . Why, then, was it forgotten?Because he would not need it?

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Why
  • Thoughts

• You know that old saying, 'A way to a man's heart is through his stomach' - that's me.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Heart

• It makes one’s head heavy and giddy, as if one were not looking back down the receding perspectives of time but rather down on the earth from a great height, from one of those towers whose tops are lost to view in the clouds

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • Earth

• The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Lost

• 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
  • Control
  • Lost
  • Broken