Lena Dunham Quotes

Everyone needs something from me.

Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?

Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

It's really hard to grow with another person.

There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated each other and were sort of in love with each other.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

What a snarky jerk. (Obviously, I later slept with him.)

I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread.

It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

On a personal level, I'm proud of Grace Dunham for being so staunchly in her identity. It's a very unusual thing for a young person. I think she's been very strong about it.

We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.

For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace Dunham is a really amazing educational resource.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

I kind of look like every other girl walking around.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.

I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

The way in which you share your body must be a CHOICE. Support these women and do not look at these pictures.

sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.

I don’t really read reviews… That’s not where my attention goes.

If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.

I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.

I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.

Running had always been off the table for me. It just looks embarrassing when I do it. I viewed it like learning a new language - best to learn it as a child.

You should always go where there is a 'you-shaped' hole in the world.

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

I was raised on the internet.