Quotes By Lena Dunham

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.

I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.

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

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.

All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

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 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.

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.

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