“I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.”
Dating
“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.”
MomAll Quotes by Lena Dunham
“All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.”
Dating“At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.”
Age“I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.”
Funny“I never sort of thought of myself as a comedy writer, by nature.”
Nature“I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.”
Home“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.”
Positive“I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.”
Relationship“I feel like I don't watch that many shows with death.”
Death“My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.”
Fitness“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.”
Amazing“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.”
Poetry“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.”
Age“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.”
Mom“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.'”
Cool“I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.”
Romantic“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.”
Relationship“My mom knows pretty well how I see her.”
Mom“I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.”
Relationship“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.”
Funny