Lena Dunham Quotes

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.

Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.

I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.

I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.

I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.

For me, my life goal is to be in a position where I can wear pajamas 24 hours a day. That's what makes me happy.

It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.

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

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

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

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.

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

I don"t feel like there are a tremendous amount of roles for the size I am.

I think we all feel that way when we're young we don't think teachers have lives. We don't think therapists have lives. We don't think doctors have lives.

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

One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.

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.

I don't think anyone would want to come to my gallery show.

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

But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

When someone anonymous tells me I'm fat, that's not a person to me. If they're not going to acknowledge me as a person, I'm certainly not going to acknowledge them as a person.

From what I hear, [ "Fifty Shades of Grey" ] is not a way that I feel like I need to be turned on or like a hole that needs to be filled in me.

The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.

Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

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

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

I thought about starting a novella club because it seemed less ambitious.

The thing that's so hard about being a kid is you don't have enough knowledge to explain things yourself.

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 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.

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

I've always been someone in [childhood] period of my life sort of the pains and anxieties of being young are the things that have really stuck with me.

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

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

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

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'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That’s not a concept you can really shoot down.

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

It’s interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.