Quotes By Lena Dunham

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.

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I was raised on the Internet.

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.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

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

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

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