Quotes By Lena Dunham

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 kind of look like every other girl, walking around.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.