Lena Dunham Quotes - Page 6

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.

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

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

I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would begin asking me around 5:00 P.M. every day whether she could sleep with me. I put on a big show of saying no, taking pleasure in watching her beg and sulk, but eventually I always relented. Her sticky, muscly little body thrashed beside me every night as I read Anne Sexton, watched reruns of SNL, sometimes even as I slipped my hand into my underwear to figure some stuff out.

Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?

Basically, anything a sexual predator might do to woo a small suburban girl, I was trying.

You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother and you’ll see that later and be very, very proud.

I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened.

I have to take my shoes off, you guys.

My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.

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

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

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

I frustrate myself as a writer. There are certain things that I'll think, 'Well, that would be really fun to play... if somebody else was playing this character.'

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don't support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you're living in the Midwest studying creative writing?

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.

sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.

My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.

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

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.