Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham

28 quotes

Since 1986, American writer and actress Lena Dunham has given the world some of its most quotable lines. The range of their thinking — from Funny to Relationship — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Discover 34 of Lena Dunham's most memorable quotes, ranging across Funny, Relationship, Amazing, Romantic, and Movies. Perhaps their most recognizable line: "I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed."

“I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.”

— Lena Dunham

Dating

All Quotes by Lena Dunham

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

— Lena Dunham

Funny

“My parents are artists in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.”

— Lena Dunham

Relationship

“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.”

— Lena Dunham

Success

“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.”

— Lena Dunham

Amazing

“Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.”

— Lena Dunham

Positive

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

— Lena Dunham

Age

“My mom knows pretty well how I see her.”

— Lena Dunham

Mom

“You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.”

— Lena Dunham

Poetry

“My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.”

— Lena Dunham

Fitness

“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.”

— Lena Dunham

Family

“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.”

— Lena Dunham

Funny

“I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.”

— Lena Dunham

Nature

“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.”

— Lena Dunham

Mom

“I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.”

— Lena Dunham

Romantic

“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.'”

— Lena Dunham

Cool

“I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.”

— Lena Dunham

Movies

“I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.”

— Lena Dunham

Home

“It's funny, I never considered that people are going to see me on the show and maybe stop me on the subway.”

— Lena Dunham

Funny

“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.”

— Lena Dunham

Age

“I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.”

— Lena Dunham

Amazing