Top 100 Dunham Quotes
#1. 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.
Lena Dunham
#2. Walter: Do you see this lovely young lady sitting right here in the front row? Do you see her? Do you see her?
Jeff: Yeah.
Walter: Oh well!
Jeff Dunham
#4. 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.
Lena Dunham
#5. Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.
Lena Dunham
#6. If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.
Lena Dunham
#7. You have to move so you don't die. You have to move so your brain doesn't atrophy. You have to move so that you look a little bit like a person that you might want to be. There are a thousand reasons why exercise is important, and I've had to find ways to make it sexy for myself.
Lena Dunham
#8. 'Girls' is one of my favorite shows of all time. One of the things I love about Lena Dunham and Jenji Kohan and Shonda Rhimes is that they're all willing to show complex, amazing women.
Alysia Reiner
#9. I love touring, I love doing the live show and it's just like a musical artist, you just keep coming up with material and as long as you're coming up with the material and as long as audiences like it, you just keep doing it, it's your job.
Jeff Dunham
#10. A lot of my best stuff is just ad libs on stage, and that's one thing that I've gotten back to at the live show.
Jeff Dunham
#11. I am literally obsessed with Lena Dunham. She's, like, my favorite person in the world. I follow her on Twitter; I read her every day.
Emma Watson
#12. I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see a really bad juggler who's really funny.
Jeff Dunham
#13. There are not that many ventriloquists out there who build their own characters. I love that because they are uniquely mine.
Jeff Dunham
#14. I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
Lena Dunham
#15. Sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.
Lena Dunham
#16. That's also how I felt in high school, sure that my people were from elsewhere and going elsewhere and that they would recognize me when they saw me.
Lena Dunham
#17. At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.
Lena Dunham
#18. Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.
Katherine Dunham
#20. When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
Lena Dunham
#21. I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.
Lena Dunham
#22. 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.
Lena Dunham
#23. I'm guilty of being fascinated by gadgets and toys and technology, but any penny that I spend, I try to make it be a part of what I do for a living. Because then you are forwarding. You are forwarding that art, forwarding that career ahead.
Jeff Dunham
#24. Is that a condom?" I asked.
"Yeah, basically", she said.
"But is different than a condom? Like, what do you call the product?"
"A condom.
Lena Dunham
#25. This is our hobby, appropriating meaningful artifacts and displaying them as evidence of who we will never be.
Lena Dunham
#26. I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were.
Katherine Dunham
#27. What a snarky jerk. (Obviously, I later slept with him.)
Lena Dunham
#28. I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child ... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it.
Jeff Dunham
#29. If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.
Lena Dunham
#30. I used to be the youngest person on the set [of Bored To Death]. Now I'm very often the oldest person on the set. I feel lucky about that, to be honest. Lena [Dunham], by the way is a doll to me. So much fun to work with and really open.
Richard Masur
#31. Achmed 'Two Jews walk into a bar'
No no no no no' Jeff
You don't let Jews in your bar? You racist bastard' Achmed"
-Achmed the dead terrorist and Jeff
Jeff Dunham
#33. For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.
Katherine Dunham
#34. I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.
Lena Dunham
#35. I'm glad if my work can make a difference.
Lena Dunham
#36. I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
Lena Dunham
#37. There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.
Lena Dunham
#38. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.
Lena Dunham
#40. I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
Lena Dunham
#41. I'm a fan of Louis C.K., I'm a fan of Lena Dunham. I love shows about people that other people would consider unlikable, or, like, the work of Woody Allen and Albert Brooks.
Jill Soloway
#42. Katherine Heiny's work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women's interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve
and makes you laugh along the way.
Lena Dunham
#43. I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
Lena Dunham
#45. I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.
Lena Dunham
#46. I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
Lena Dunham
#47. Respect isn't something you command through intimidation and intellectual bullying. It's something you build through a long life of treating people how you want to be treated
Lena Dunham
#48. I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.
Lena Dunham
#49. It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.
Lena Dunham
#50. When I was in third grade I taught myself ventriloquism ... What's hard is to learn to be an entertainer and make people laugh. I was a few years out of college before I felt I had enough material. Then in 1988 I moved to L.A. and started to do some shows at comedy clubs.
Jeff Dunham
#51. A night of carousing never passed without me stepping outside the experience to think, Yes, this must be what it is to be young.
Lena Dunham
#52. Oh, so how did the marrige counsling go?
Well let's just say after it was over there where two people who thought I was an ass. And i was paying both of 'um.
Jeff Dunham
#53. I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.
Lena Dunham
#54. 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.
Lena Dunham
#55. The same way all the people I love factor in - my parents, my sister, my girlfriend [Lena Dunham], my best friend, all the people I love are always right there. I don't have a lot of people in my life, but there's a small group of people that I don't like to do things without.
Jack Antonoff
#56. She asks me my worst quality, and I say I can be very self-involved. She says hers is that she gets lost in the world of her work and can't find her way back out again.
Lena Dunham
#57. You're 40 and he's 22. Do you have to marry him? Couldn't you just adopt him?
Ann Dunham
#58. The next day we ate too much In-N-Out Burger and lay in bed beside each other and I cried ostensibly because I'd miss him when I left, but truly I felt dead inside
Lena Dunham
#59. I am grown up. That's why I cooked all this food!
Lena Dunham
#60. So Achmed if you've been in my suitcase this entire time how have you been getting through security? Oh thats easy they open the suitcase and i say 'ello my name is lindey lohan!
Jeff Dunham
#61. Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.
Lena Dunham
#62. [In my bio] is no drunk driving, there's no DUI's, there's no possession of cocaine, none of that stuff so you know, I don't know if that's good or bad. Everybody loves dirty laundry.
Jeff Dunham
#63. 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.
Lena Dunham
#64. A comedian needs to have his own filters, needs to know his audience, how far he can push things.
Jeff Dunham
#65. Everybody has their favorite character.That's the only way I pick, whatever is going on in society, whatever I think folks will laugh at that's what I come up with.
Jeff Dunham
#66. I've got an answer to where Osama bin Laden is and I know, he's dead and living in my suitcase with my dummies.'
Jeff Dunham
#67. I'm a Macintosh nut. I got my PowerBook, so if I'm not writing jokes, I'm working on that.
Jeff Dunham
#68. Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.
Lena Dunham
#69. Peanut: Come here puppet boy... make your daddy talk!
Jeff Dunham
#70. [on camp:]
There were ten of us, living in a three-hundred-square-foot bunk, going through puberty as lightning speed. It was too much hormonal action for any one room, and the result was a frenzied, emotionally volatile space that smelled like a Bath and Body Works.
Lena Dunham
#71. Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it's too late.
Lena Dunham
#73. D. J. Tanner called and she wants her wardrobe back so it can be included in a museum retrospective about the prime years of Full House.
Lena Dunham
#74. I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.
Lena Dunham
#75. I miss her the way I missed our loft after we moved in seventh grade: sharply, and then not at all. There is too much unpacking to do.
Lena Dunham
#76. I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.
Lena Dunham
#77. I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.
Lena Dunham
#78. I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.
Lena Dunham
#79. My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.
Lena Dunham
#80. If you choke a Smurf, what color does it turn?
Jeff Dunham
#81. You're forcing sex when I just want to be heard.
Lena Dunham
#82. She has never listened to Deepak Chopra, switched to almond milk, or meditated. Yet she is here, in the chair by the window in the house she was born in, outliving her husband and siblings and nephews and friends.
Lena Dunham
#83. It's amazing how these little guys can say things that a mortal human could never get away with. There's some sort of unspoken license ... when outlandish things come out of an inanimate object, somehow it equals humor.
Jeff Dunham
#84. My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa.
Katherine Dunham
#86. 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.
Lena Dunham
#87. Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.
Katherine Dunham
#88. I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.
Lena Dunham
#89. 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.
Lena Dunham
#90. Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.
Jeff Dunham
#91. After all, if a girl whines in her walk-in closet and no one's there to hear her, did she really whine at all? Something
Lena Dunham
#92. I think about death, when I lie in bed and imagine disintegrating, my skin going leathery and my hair petrifying and a tree growing out of my stomach, it's a way to avoid what's right in front of me. It's a way to not be here, in the uncertainty of right now.
Lena Dunham
#93. I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.
Lena Dunham
#94. I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me. Maybe I'll think of myself as an actor if, like, I do a corset drama.
Lena Dunham
#95. The kids who come backstage that have cancer or whatever, make them laugh and smile for a little while, what's the problem with that? There isn't any.
Jeff Dunham
#96. There's nothing better for a comedian than adversity.
Jeff Dunham
#97. I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
Lena Dunham
#98. My mother understood, implicitly, the power of it. See these hips, these teeth, these eyebrows, these stockings that bunch and sag at the ankles? They're worth capturing, holding on to forever. I'll never be this young again. Or this lonely. Or this hairy. Come one, come all, to my private show.
Lena Dunham
#99. And my mother always knew that, hence her Nikon raised high and pointed right into the mirror. She sensed that by documenting her own body, she was preserving her history. Beautifully. Nakedly. Imperfectly. Her private experiment made way for my public one.
Lena Dunham
#100. Peanut: Just last week I was lying in bed and I woke up sobbing 'I will never be happy until we return to SA-NA-TA-ANA!' And now we're here! Thank you for bringing me!
Jeff Dunham
