Lena Dunham quotes

Lena Dunham is an American actress, writer, and director, recognized for creating and starring in the TV series "Girls." Her work often explores themes of identity, relationships, and contemporary womanhood. She continues to influence the conversation around feminism, creativity, and representation in media. Here are 104 of her quotes:

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

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I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

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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.

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I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are.

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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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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.

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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.

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It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

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

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I had no friends. I worried a lot.

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At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

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

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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.

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

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My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

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If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.

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I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

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I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

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Women saying "I'm not a feminist" is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you're a feminist.

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Enjoy going through life as yourself.

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But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

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

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