Quotes By Lena Dunham

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.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

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

I have an agent now.

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.

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.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

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

I am anti-pants.

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

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

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

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

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

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

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

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

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

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

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

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.

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.