Lena Headey

I've said from day one that I've got no problem with nudity. I've done it throughout my career.

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 look at someone like Kathryn Bigelow, and I have so much admiration. She's playing in the boy's sandpit, and winning.

I urge everyone - men, boys, women and girls - to join me in standing up for girls' rights with Plan U.K.

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 was never one of the cool kids who read '2000 AD.'

There seems to be great roles for women, and it's not necessarily - you don't have to be young women. Suddenly, we're realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.

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.

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.

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

Nothing's ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.