Lena Dunham quotes - page 4

It's really hard to grow with another person. (Lena Dunham)

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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There's a certain grace to having your heart broken.

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I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

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

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I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy. (Lena Dunham)

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

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It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

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

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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.

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I kind of look like every other girl walking around.

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But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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I was raised on the internet.

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I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened.

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Lena Dunham

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Occupation: American Actress
Born: May 13, 1986
Quotes count: 104

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