Lena Dunham Quotes - Page 7

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

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

It's really hard to grow with another person.

I kind of look like every other girl walking around.

The way in which you share your body must be a CHOICE. Support these women and do not look at these pictures.

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

In Hollywood, you've got a hundred people on set, and shooting the sex scene you're wearing nude-toned underwear and tape on your nipples. Nothing is going beyond where you want it to go.

Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

My shape reminds me a lot of my grandmother, whom I was really close to. She died when I was 13, and we have a really similar body type, the squat New England woman who can roll out dough and bring in your lawnmower. That's kind of the vibe of my body, and I'm into it.

I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread.

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 think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.

You can't give any exciting speech without misremembering things.

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

I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.

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

I took "Forever" [by Judy Blume] to the bathroom to read [when I was eight] and then I heard my mom coming so I stuck it under the toilet and went running out. And I went back later to check for it. And it was gone.

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

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

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.

I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.