Lena Dunham Quotes

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

I remember asking my mom, "Do you think that I will ever have enough money to live outside of your house?" And she would be like, "You just never know."

If you watch my movie, you understand I am perverse and weird and angry and not looking to direct a film that ends with a bunch of teenagers exploding into glitter.

I frustrate myself as a writer. There are certain things that I'll think, 'Well, that would be really fun to play... if somebody else was playing this character.'

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.

Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fibre of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

Not to speak for Jason [Benjamin], but he's a straight married dude with two kids.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't need a book like that.

I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.

I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend groups and less a sense of self.

This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or if you choose not to.

I have an authority problem.

We're living in a world where [Judy Blume] books were ever banned, and now like "Fifty Shades of Grey" is being read in high schools. Like it's just a wild.

I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's really important.

A girl's night for me is with a member of my family on the couch, eating takeout, watching something good, going to sleep early, it's so boring, but it's just what I need!

I support Selfies! I think the war on selfies is really unjust!

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.

You get reactions and you connect to people and I love Twitter.

I hate to be the person that's like, "We're doing something that's never been done before."

I feel lucky in that the same way I've surrounded myself with people I'm creatively comfortable with, I've surrounded myself with people who are accepting of the way that I look.

I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.

That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

I think that as our country becomes more tolerant as a whole of certain things, hopefully becomes more tolerant, there's a way that certain kinds of bullying will be passe and unacceptable.

I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.

All adventurous women do.

I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...

Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.

For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?

Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

I always reminded myself that this wasn't exactly where I was meant to be, but pit stops are okay on the road of life, aren't they?

I am grown up. That's why I cooked all this food!

The end never comes when you think it will. It’s always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action.

I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.

The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action,

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.