Quotes By Lena Dunham

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.

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.

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

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

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

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

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.

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

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.'

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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