Top 100 Lena Quotes
#1. I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.
Lena Olin
#2. 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
#3. I'm not going to do it again," Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.
Aaron Michael Ritchey
#5. It's always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more.
Lena Headey
#6. If I was into politics, I would be rich.
Lena Headey
#7. 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
#8. Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.
Lena Dunham
#9. If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.
Lena Dunham
#10. 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
#11. MAMA (Quietly, woman to woman)
He finally come into his manhood today, didn't he? Kind of like a rainbow after the rain ...
RUTH (Biting her lip, lest her own pride explode in front of Mama)
Yes, Lena.
Lorraine Hansberry
#12. '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
#13. He's usually so dour. But not now, not with me, and I like it. He doesn't interact with others without the shield he puts in front of him.
Lena Black
#14. 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
#16. People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
Dionne Warwick
#17. They were so beautiful in their opposition - like two sides of a coin.
They were ... balance.
Lena Coakley
#18. I don't want to fuck you, Elle. I want to make love to you. Take me gently, angel." I moan at his words and come back in a little too eagerly. "Gently," he whispers, halting me for an instant before I place my lips tenderly on his.
Lena Black
#19. Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
Ann Brashares
#20. What the hell is the matter with you?" My voice is low. I have to push the words out past the hard lump of anger in my throat. "I - I'm sorry," Alex whispers. He shakes his head. "I didn't mean ... I don't know what happened. I'm sorry, Lena." If
Lauren Oliver
#21. I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
Lena Dunham
#22. Sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.
Lena Dunham
#23. 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
#24. At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.
Lena Dunham
#25. There's a perceived inverse relation between looks and talent. Look at Charlize Theron - she made herself ugly for 'Monster' and suddenly everyone said 'she's a genius.' It shouldn't be like that.
Lena Headey
#26. When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
Lena Dunham
#27. I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.
Lena Dunham
#28. I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.
Lena Headey
#29. 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
#30. Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books.
Kami Garcia
#31. Everyone is complicated one way or another. But it's interesting to dig into a complicated character, to try to find that within yourself.
Lena Olin
#32. I've never directed before, so I need to make sure that people know that I can. The movie that I've written, 'The Sophisticates,' is a ... small ensemble comedy and I hope it's charming and funny.
Lena Headey
#33. 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
#34. I feel the need to work with my wife, Lena Olin, again.
Lasse Hallstrom
#35. This is our hobby, appropriating meaningful artifacts and displaying them as evidence of who we will never be.
Lena Dunham
#36. What a snarky jerk. (Obviously, I later slept with him.)
Lena Dunham
#37. I would do anything I could to try to make sure that Lena Headey wins an Emmy.
Alex Graves
#38. I think my most favorite subject was Lena Horne because she embodies soul and grace and elegance and street. She embodies everything and beauty, great beauty, so she was a favorite subject.
Carol Friedman
#39. I can be your quintessential good guy princess. I'll treat you right; I'll be there for you whenever you need me, even when you think you don't... but don't for one second let that fool you. I'm gonna own you Lena, body, mind, heart and soul. You'll be mine, totally, completely and irrefutably mine.
G.L. Chapple
#40. Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a bridge to people, which she couldn't easily cross.
Ann Brashares
#41. 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
#42. Lena's hair was sticking out in about fifteen directions, and her eyes were all small and puffy from crying. So this was what girls looked like in the morning. I had never seen one, not up close.
Kami Garcia
#44. You have to be taught to be secondclass;your not born that way
Lena Horne
#45. 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
#48. Lena was going down the list of John's attributes in her mind, a list I was hoping wasn't too long. "He could see and hear and smell things I couldn't."
Link inhaled deeply, then coughed. "Dude, you really need a shower.
Kami Garcia
#49. 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
#50. I'm glad if my work can make a difference.
Lena Dunham
#51. He nips the lobe of my ear and growls, "I'm going to fuck you until you see god.
Lena Black
#52. I like you.
You don't know me.
I want to, though.
Lauren Oliver
#53. I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
Lena Dunham
#54. I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.
Lena Horne
#55. This presents a serious question." They both looked at me. "What's that?" asked Lena. "Whether to start you off with a Doctor Who marathon or dive straight into Firefly.
Jim C. Hines
#56. Durbin's sunglasses were gone, and his gray eyes sparkled up at her. He winked. "Take care of yourself, Dr. Venkman."
Lena bit back a grin. "You too, Dana Barrett.
Laura Oliva
#57. There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.
Lena Dunham
#58. 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
#59. I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
Lena Dunham
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
Lena Dunham
#63. As a teenager I was clinically depressed. Although I had lots of friends, I found those years very difficult.
Lena Headey
#65. I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.
Lena Dunham
#66. Count Basie isn't just a man, or even just a band. He's a way of life.
Lena Horne
#67. He silenced the thought, already itching to get inside her, his tongue, or his fingers, or his cock. After all these years of wanting, he would gladly accept whatever access to her body she gave him. He just wanted in.
Amber Belldene
#68. You can't affect what people think Lena. THey wanna think the worst, they will. I'm not wasting energy trying to make everyone happy. I have enough on my hands just keeping my own shit together.
Kylie Scott
#69. I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
Lena Dunham
#70. 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
#71. I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.
Lena Dunham
#72. Some people, no, you're never going to change their opinions. It doesn't mean you have to accept it. If they're bold enough to stare or make snide little comments under their breath, then they need to be bold enough to say it to my face.
Lena Matthews
#73. There are a lot of things to get seduced by in America.
Lena Olin
#74. It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.
Lena Dunham
#75. I hate being looked at. Can't stand it. I know, I know - I picked the wrong career. I should have been a doctor. If you play certain parts you have this nice face painted on you, and then you have feel as if you have a responsibility to this idea of being beautiful. I hate that about our business.
Lena Headey
#76. Oh, how I want those lips on mine, and not just the ones I use to communicate.
Lena Black
#77. 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
#78. Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
Brian J. White
#79. I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.
Lena Dunham
#80. 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
#81. I am very much a seat-of-the-pants actor. I will prepare when I have to. But I like being unprepared.
Lena Headey
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. It occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him
his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.
Lauren Oliver
#85. 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
#86. I am grown up. That's why I cooked all this food!
Lena Dunham
#87. 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
#88. Charlotte. There's a girl on the roof. She says her name is Lena... She says she brought the helicopter you wanted? - August
Brittany Cavallaro
#89. 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
#90. I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was a little girl. We went to Florida and we would go to the Cocoanut Grove down there. We'd go see Lena Horne, Jimmy Durante, Sophie Tucker and Judy Garland.
Lainie Kazan
#91. I'm yours. You are not one of many lovers. There's only you, Gabrielle.
Lena Black
#92. Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.
Lena Headey
#93. Come with me. It's so much better than coming alone.
(Lucan whispered to Lena)
Lynn Viehl
#94. Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.
Lena Dunham
#95. The text message she'd received last night from the unknown number left her sick inside. It had been curt and to the point: Stay away from my husband. The terse message came with a photo of Gabe with a pretty brunette.
Lena Hart
#96. But an intelligent man like you would know that to live in an unrealistic hope is a very foolish way to spend a life. - Lena Gray
Maeve Binchy
#97. Even in the slippery blur of heat and arms and noise, Lena affected everything in her wake, a pull as powerful as the moon to the tides, or the planets to the sun. I was caught in her orbit, even as she pulled away from mine.
Kami Garcia
#99. Yeah, he was a virgin, too, but he was proud of the fact he'd waited, that he was going to lose it right along with Lena.
Jenika Snow
#100. I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
Lena Horne
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