Lena Dunham Quotes

United States, Actress
March 13, 1986

Lena Dunham is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She is best known as the creator, writer, and star of the HBO series Girls (2012–2017), for which she has received numerous Emmy Award nominations, and two Golden Globe Awards. Prior to Girls, Dunham wrote, directed, and starred in the semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

Also known as Writer, Director

I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

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

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- Women
- Funny

I'm glad if my work can make a difference.

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- Work
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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- Air
- Worry
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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- Children
- Mother
My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

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- Thinking
- Remember
- Bad
I had no friends. I worried a lot.

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- Friends
I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'

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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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I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

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The work that's interesting to me in other people is really confessional.

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- People
- Work
- Interesting
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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- Book
- Tattoo
I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

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- Girl
- Lost
- Annoying
I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

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- Done
- Comedy
- Romantic

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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It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

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- Success