Top 40 Lena Dunham Quotes

I’m always having to be told to brush my hair.

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

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

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

I didn’t have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.

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

I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.

It’s interesting how we often can’t see the ways in which we are being strong – like, you can’t be aware of what you’re doing that’s tough and brave at the time that you’re doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you’d be scared.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

I’m half Jewish half WASP.

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I’m going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I’m going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children’s nightmares are.

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 love flawed female characters, duking it out.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

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

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me – but ‘ick’ means something.

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

It’s really hard to grow with another person.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties… I don’t know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they’re the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they’re scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they’re avoiding commitment altogether.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

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

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

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.

It’s very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

I seriously consider television to be the people’s medium.

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

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there’s a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there’s so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

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

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

I feel like you don’t know if someone’s equipped for a romantic relationship until they’re out of their twenties.