Quotes By Lena Dunham

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.

I was raised on the Internet.

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.

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

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

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

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

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

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

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.

There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

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

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

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 uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

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

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.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

It's really hard to grow with another person.

I'm half Jewish half WASP.