Quotes from Lena Dunham

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

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

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

I kind of look like every other girl, walking around.

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

I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.

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

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

This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or if you choose not to.

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

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

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

For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace Dunham is a really amazing educational resource.

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

I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.

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

I always reminded myself that this wasn't exactly where I was meant to be, but pit stops are okay on the road of life, aren't they?

I'm half Jewish half WASP.

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

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.