Quotes By Lena Dunham

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

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

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

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

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

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

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

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

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.

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.

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 mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

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

It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

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

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.

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

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

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

Everyone needs something from me.

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

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.

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

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