Quotes from Lena Dunham

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

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.

You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.

Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

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

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

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.

I have an agent now.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

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

For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?

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

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

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

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