Lena Headey Quotes

Directors are not worried about casting beautiful women, but they are not sure that they want to cast great-looking men. My looks have prevented people from seeing my work.

Beautiful actors are learning what beautiful actresses like Charlize Theron discovered a while ago - that they get taken more seriously when they trash the same beauty that got them taken seriously to begin with.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

Because of how I looked, there was definitely a prejudice against me. People didn't think I could play. I could see why: I weighed about eight stone and was six foot bleeding seven.

Some people have said that I haven't got the parts I should've got because of the way I look.

It's always nice to have people say you're good-looking. But I do get told I'm not right for parts because I'm too good-looking.

Few people realize what a handicap it is to be what people call a beautiful woman. I'm glad, of course, that I don't look like an unmade bed, but too often, I'm just taken at face value. And there aren't many men who believe a beautiful woman can have any brains.

I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.

Pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It's like, 'She's pretty and thin and she's got to have problems. She's messed up.'

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there.

If I don't like somebody's looks, I don't like them.

Our public culture is one in which only the young and the beautiful will succeed. If you're forty, you're finished.

I've gotten work based on how I look, and I've not gotten work based on how I look. It's all good.

My goal was always to be recognized as a good actor but no one was interested in that, simply because society just wants to warm towards your appearance. This is the great blemish of society.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.

There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.

Let's face facts, this is visual medium, there's a very high premium put on people who are good-looking. But the minute you rely on that you get yourself in trouble. You certainly don't make a career out of that anymore as an actor.

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

Why is it that the hot chicks never can sing?

Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.

It kind of irritates me that I'm seen as this pretty face. People also say I'm too thin. The truth is pretty people aren't as accepted as other people. It comes with all these stigmas.

I'd just much rather see an ugly person take the trash out than see somebody really pretty taking the trash out.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.