Top 296 Quotes & Sayings by Lena Dunham - Page 2

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

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't really read reviews... That's not where my attention goes.

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.

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.

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

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 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'm half Jewish half WASP.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

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

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 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.

I was raised on the Internet.

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.

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

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

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 have an agent now.

I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married.

Aren't most of us dealing with the fact that we have moms who either weren't ready to be moms or had some level of resentment about it? Everybody is dealing with the different iteration of pain their mom has handed them.

Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.

My thoughts on body image are simple: if you are being kind to yourself mentally and physically you never have anything to be ashamed for, ever.

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

Can we call a moratorium on the use of the term 'ladyparts'? Grazia!

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

A girl's night for me is with a member of my family on the couch, eating takeout, watching something good, going to sleep early, it's so boring, but it's just what I need!

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.

Enjoy going through life as yourself.

I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.

Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be a psychopath.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.

There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren’t needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter. That personal writing by women is no more than an exercise in vanity and that we should appreciate this new world for women, sit down, and shut up.

I think that it's very important to be with someone who makes you feel like the best version of yourself. In some sense, your partner is a mirror, and you have to like what they're reflecting back at you.

Women want to control other women because they've been controlled themselves. It's a cycle of control. I'm not blaming women for that, but I am saying we're part of a toxic culture that's feeding all of us the same messaging.

This could very easily be taken out of context, and I think it's funny now, but I remember looking in the mirror as a kid and, it would be like for an hour at a time, and I'd be like, 'I'm just so beautiful. Everybody is so lucky that they get to look at me.' And of course that changes as you get older, but I may have held on to that little-kid feeling that was me alone in my bathroom.

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 support Selfies! I think the war on selfies is really unjust!

You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with that advice.

Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist.

I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's really important.

I think what people really hate is to be caught by surprise by criticism.

I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.

Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure.