Quotes By Lena Dunham

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

It's really hard to grow with another person.

I'm half Jewish half WASP.

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

I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

I have an agent now.

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

I am anti-pants.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

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 always having to be told to brush my hair.

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 never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

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