Quotes By Lena Dunham

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

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

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.

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

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 thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

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.

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

My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

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.

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.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

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

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

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 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.

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

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.

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

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.

Everyone needs something from me.