Quotes from Lena Dunham

I feel like so much more than my gender and so much more than my relationship to my body and my relationship to men. And, but suddenly you're sort of asked to be an expert.

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

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don't necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

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.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.

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

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.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

I was raised on the Internet.

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

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

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.

I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.

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

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

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

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.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.