“I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the ...” — Lena Headey Quote

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.

I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.

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'm small but quite tough. When incensed, I can swing a punch.

For a long time, I thought I would like to be a doctor. Such a good profession. So explicitly good. Never a waste of time.

I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

I found it a little bit stressful, because I wasn't used to working with Doctor Who. I got the impression I'd walked into the end of seven years and it was all a bit tense.

I think expectations of 'Doctor Who' should always be high, because it's a show that must always progress and get better and better.

I don't do facials - I don't really enjoy people picking at my skin. I'd rather a dermatologist who's a doctor for that do that.