34 Quotes By Lena Dunham


I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
Lena Dunham on age

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

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.
Lena Dunham on amazing

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

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.
Lena Dunham on amazing

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.'
Lena Dunham on cool

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.
Lena Dunham on dating

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

I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.
Lena Dunham on death

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.
Lena Dunham on experience

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.
Lena Dunham on family

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.
Lena Dunham on family

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
Lena Dunham on fitness

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.
Lena Dunham on funny

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

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

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

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

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.
Lena Dunham on hope

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
Lena Dunham on hope