Lena Headey Quotes

Things kind of happen organically with me.

I honestly have no strategy whatsoever. I'm waiting for that script to pop through the letterbox and completely surprise me.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.

Well, a lot of successes come by mistake.

No, I never planned my life.

I have never planned anything. 'Kung Fu Yoga' was also never planned or anything.

I'm surprised as anyone about where I've ended up. Maybe it's because I say yes to things.

I have never chosen my next job. I focus on what's in front of me, and serendipity steps in.

I drifted into acting, and I've drifted into my career, and I've never been guided by anything particularly concrete.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

My life is spontaneous and things just kind of happen.

I don't seem to have ever had a plan, but I have always been quite good at walking through doors when they are opened. I am never any good at anticipating what will happen next, but I always go for it when it does.

I've never had a clear road map. When things come along, I benefit.

Being non-commercial is never an ambition. Movies come together at different points for fortuitous reasons. You do them as you get the opportunity, as opposed to doing them when you choose to or design to.

I don't have a game plan. I never did, and it's too late to have one even if I wanted to.

I don't believe in planning for things. I just want them to fall in place, unfold as they like. I never design things. I want films to choose me; I don't choose films.

I like to improvise; I think it's just a healthy thing to do, to keep everything loose and fun.

I am not very good at planning things, actually, but I believe that things happen when they need to and when they have to.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favour or not and then maybe the whole dynamics can change.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

The important thing is not to know where you are going, to be open to accidents. That's what keeps it fun.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

I tend to go with the flow and that flow can end up in great places or not so great places.

I love when things don't go to plan.