Lena Dunham Quotes

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Lena Dunham

Profession : Actress

Birth : May 13, 1986

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

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My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

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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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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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At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

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I've always been someone who feels better, if I see what I'm going through in a movie.

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I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

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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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I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.

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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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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.

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My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

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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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The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

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I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.

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I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

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Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

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There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

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I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

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I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

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