Top 100 Quotes About Lena Dunham
#1. '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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I think Lena Dunham is a very bright and very interesting writer, and what she's accomplished at such a young age absolutely impresses me.
Roxane Gay
#7. I am a feminist. And I'm so glad that Lena Dunham exists, because she is one too, and she's quite vocal about it. Yes, women have more freedom and more influence than ever, but it's hardly equal. It's just not.
Claire Danes
#8. I'm not on Twitter, but I am on Instagram and follow Lena Dunham and Usher.
Michelle Dockery
#10. I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
Caitlin Moran
#11. I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera. Someone who does this wonderfully well is Lena Dunham.
Kevin Systrom
#12. I think people like Lena Dunham really opened up the door to what was possible, and they've inspired young women to go into filmmaking and writing and directing and acting in a way that maybe they didn't before, because now there is a path and there are jobs.
Judd Apatow
#13. My muses were all the incredible, iconic women of glamour in Hollywood that I have worked with over 15 years. Anjelica Huston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lena Dunham, Viola Davis, Rihanna, Demi Moore ...
Zac Posen
#14. For me, I am a huge fan of Sofia Coppola and Lynn Shelton. I love Lena Dunham, like everybody else. I love Kathryn Bigelow.
Diablo Cody
#15. I love 'Girls.' The writing is so clever. I think Lena Dunham is a genius. I can't believe she writes it, directs it and stars in it. It's really exciting that a young woman has been able to achieve all of that.
Helen George
#16. People are often surprised by the fact that I laugh a lot, that I look like Lena Dunham, and that I don't want to make relationship dramas for the rest of my career.
Hannah Fidell
#17. You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.
Danai Gurira
#18. I am truly obsessed with Lena Dunham. I find everything about her unique and refreshing. She is a brilliant, hilarious and honest writer who is not afraid to make her audience uncomfortable.
Spencer Kayden
#19. I've become good friends with Lena Dunham, and the thing I had in common with Lena when I was 24 is I was as ambitious as she was. What we don't have in common is that I was not as talented. My voice was not as clearly defined.
Mike Birbiglia
#20. 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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#22. 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.
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#23. Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.
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#24. If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.
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#25. 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.
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#26. I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.
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#27. Sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.
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#28. 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.
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#29. At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.
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#30. When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.
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#31. I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.
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#32. 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.
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#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.
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#34. This is our hobby, appropriating meaningful artifacts and displaying them as evidence of who we will never be.
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#35. What a snarky jerk. (Obviously, I later slept with him.)
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#36. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#39. I'm glad if my work can make a difference.
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#40. I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
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#41. There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.
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#42. 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.
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#43. I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.
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#44. 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.
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#45. I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.
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#47. I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.
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#48. I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.
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#49. 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
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#50. I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.
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#51. It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.
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#52. A night of carousing never passed without me stepping outside the experience to think, Yes, this must be what it is to be young.
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#53. I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.
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#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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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
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#57. I am grown up. That's why I cooked all this food!
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#58. Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.
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#59. 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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#60. Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.
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#61. [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.
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#62. Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it's too late.
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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.
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#67. I find it really awkward to do a scene where I'm supposed to seem like I'm in love.
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#68. 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.
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#69. My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.
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#70. You're forcing sex when I just want to be heard.
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#71. 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.
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#72. 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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#73. I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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
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#76. 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.
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#77. I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.
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#78. 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.
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#79. I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.
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#80. 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.
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#81. 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.
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#82. She has a taste for unusual women, with strong noses and doll eyes and creative dispositions.
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#83. When I'm playing a character, I am never allowed to explicitly state the the takeaway message of the scenes I'm performing - after all, part of the dramatic conflict is that the person I'm portraying doesn't really know it yet.
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#84. college was a wonderful gig, thousands of hours to tend to yourself like a garden.
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#85. When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us.
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#86. 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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#87. Barbie's disfigured. It's fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.
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#88. 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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#89. At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.
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#90. When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.
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#91. I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it.
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#92. I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things.
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#93. I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.
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#94. Even 9 1/2 Weeks made some kind of terrible sense.
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#95. I'm not super thin, but I'm thin, for like, Detroit
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#96. I think breakfast is the one meal when you don't have to eat animal, maybe.
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#97. 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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#99. Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?
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#100. My distaste for computers has an almost-political fervor: they're changing our society, I say, and for the worse. Let's act human. Converse. Use our handwriting. I
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