Lena Dunham Quotes

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Lena Dunham

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 13, 1986

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

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I am anti-pants.

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I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

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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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Everyone needs something from me.

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You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

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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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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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I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

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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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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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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 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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No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

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It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

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I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

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

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

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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 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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