Lena Headey Quotes

I don't want to be owned by anyone.

Lena Headey

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• I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.

  

  Raekwon
  • Lost
  • Crazy
  • Jewelry

• The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Life
  • Never
  • Actor

• I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Long
  • Responsibility

• There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing eyes. And, like him, I was verbal, easygoing, and low-key on the surface, and, deep down, proud, socially paranoid, full of self-loathing, and prone to rage at injustice.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Long
  • Father
  • Strong

• The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Know
  • Like
  • Concept

• People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

  

  Dalia Mogahed
  • People
  • Great
  • Hero

• At Tencent, we may be businessmen, but we are still chasing our IT, our science. We are still striving to create something really cool, trying to create things we couldn't even imagine without our new technologies. I am still clinging to this enthusiasm.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Science
  • Enthusiasm
  • Technologies

• I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

  

  Fawn Hall
  • Know
  • Details
  • Relevant

• Viola Davis is incredible - she's kind of the biggest career-wise inspiration for me. Brilliant actor, so intelligent, so strong. The path that she's made is incredible.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Career
  • Strong
  • Inspiration

• What should be the aim of management? What is their job? Quality is the responsibility of the top people. Its origin is in the boardroom. They are the ones who decide.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • People
  • Job
  • Responsibility

• In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Family

• For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • School
  • High
  • Death

• I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • School
  • Law
  • Meant To Be

• What Bollywood lacks is scripts. A lot of the films are copies of western films.

  

  Om Puri
  • Films
  • Lot
  • Copies

• I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • Money

• Dango, Pume, Thwither: down with Visbhume’s breeches; let him hold his backside at the ready.

  

  Jack Vance

• De poetas no digo: buen siglo es éste. Muchos están en ciernes para el año que viene; pero ninguno hay tan malo como Cervantes ni tan necio que alabe a don Quijote.

  

  Lope de Vega

• When I was 12, I had a fondness for horror movies like the 'Wolfman.' The boy next door said I should read Poe.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Boy
  • Door

• My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.

  

  William Styron
  • Thinking
  • Dirt
  • Dishes

• Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.

  

  Barrett Foa
  • Good
  • She
  • Sweet

• I started over again with an image: Nothing goes right. Then when The Godfather came out, all I heard was, Show respect. With me, you show respect. So I changed the image to I don't get no respect. I tried it out in Greenwich Village. I remember the first joke I told: Even as a kid, I'd play hide and seek and the other kids wouldn't even look for me. The people laughed. After the show, they started saying to me, Me, too - I don't get no respect. I figured, let's try it again.

  

  Jack Roy
  • People
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Most of us have to be transplanted before we blossom.

  

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
  • Blossom
  • Transplanted

• I don't want to be owned by anyone.

  

  Lena Headey