Lena Headey Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

Lena: I was 17 when I got my first job. I had not gone to drama school. I was lucky and just fell into it. I was asked to audition for a film when I was 17 and did that.

Lena: You can't take anything for granted for a second otherwise you trip up. More than anything, I believe life is all about timing. I know certainly every situation in my life has been like "why now"? and it's a test or a beautiful moment. That's why life is so gorgeous.

Lena: I feel like my career has been like an elastic; I've almost had the big breakthrough role so many times and then been back to where I started. "I've given up thinking, 'This is it,' as it makes you dizzy, so I'm just going to do what I do and if things happen then they happen.

Lena: [about the cuisine in Czech Republic when shooting Brothers Grimm] We were in Prague, so the catering wasn't that amazing. If you liked your scrambled eggs lukewarm and discoloured, then it was fabulous..

Lena:[when asked about magic and supernatural] I do think it exists. It is an endless talking point for people. I believe in the supernatural only because I have had experiences with a ghost since an early age. I have seen too much stuff to think I was crazy or it was a coincidence.

Trivia

Lena in her free time boxes, and she also likes Yoga.

Lena appears in the music video for "Bellissimo" by Bristol, UK band Ilya, directed by the Guard Brothers.

Headey seems to be rather busy at this time. She completed the shooting of 300, the story of king Leonidas of Sparta and the notorious battle of Thermopylae and is involved in 3 more films : "The Shooter" as Ballard, "Der Rote Baron" as Kate and "Walk Two Moons" as Mrs Cadaver.

Lena originally intended to be a hairdresser.

Lena's last name is pronounced "HEE-dee".

Lena met her fianc?e at a wedding she attended.

Lena is a vegetarian.

Lena's father, a police officer, was sent to train in Bermuda, shortly after Headey was born.

Lena is currently engaged to Johnny Cicco.

Lean first came to the attention of audiences in 1992, when she played the younger version of Jeremy Irons' wife in "Waterland."

Lena dated actor Jason Flemyng for a time.