Lena Dunham Quotes
I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.
Quotes to Explore
-
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
-
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
-
I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
-
When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump.
-
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.
-
Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
-
I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
-
I'm a political conservative.
-
I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
-
I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
-
I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
-
My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
-
We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.
-
For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
-
We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
-
Before I did comedy, I'd freestyle with all of my friends. In high school and into college, I recorded songs with my friends, not to perform but just to play for them. So I've had interest in music for a while. Early on, I'd host a lot of music open nights or hip-hop nights, so a lot of my early experience performing was around music.
-
I'm proudest of the fact that I've been able to make a few movies in the studio system that are slightly unorthodox and personal. But it's never quite as easy as you dream that it could be.
-
I didn't think that college math was for me. I didn't think I'd be able to hack it. And that perception of math not being for girls, not being for girls who see themselves as socially well adjusted has got to change.
-
Remember, if you do the same act for 20, 30 years it gets a little boring unless you've got something else going for you... And the orchestra really kept you going. They'd laugh at all your jokes, even if they'd been hearing them for the last 30 years.
-
Everything is made of atoms.
-
There are a lot of action movies with very little comedy.
-
Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
-
I'm not saying all men are likely to cheat.
-
I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.
