Quotes By Lena Dunham

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.

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.

Everyone needs something from me.

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

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

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.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

I was raised on the Internet.

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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'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.