Latest Lena Dunham Quotes from Interviews

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• I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. People taking pictures of what they eat and showing them on their Facebook. People assume that people have a level of interest in what they're doing that's maybe far greater than it is, although there is an audience for all that stuff.

  Lena Dunham

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• We're the last f - ing people who have a f - ing opinion on what you should do with your body. Anything that makes your day easier, as long as you're not feeding your baby crack in milk, is really good by us.

  Lena Dunham

  Baby, Long, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or if you choose not to.

  Lena Dunham

  Mother, You Choose

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• Aren't most of us dealing with the fact that we have moms who either weren't ready to be moms or had some level of resentment about it? Everybody is dealing with the different iteration of pain their mom has handed them.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, Pain, Different

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• The biggest fear that everybody has is dying. Not to get too meta on you, but I think every fear that people are trying to work out is really like I'm going to die and no one is going to care, and it doesn't matter because God might not exist. That's what people are trying to figure out. I wish we all had one fear so we could think about it together and figure out a solution, but we're all doing different things.

  Lena Dunham

  Thinking, People, Work Out

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Fiction, Stories

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.

  Lena Dunham

  Artist, People, Looks

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend groups and less a sense of self.

  Lena Dunham

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• The current economic climate means getting out of college is no guarantee of getting a job, and no guarantee of a satisfying work life. My Dad feels that this is the first generation of Americans that expects that there children will have a harder time then they did. That's a fascinating concept.

  Lena Dunham

  Jobs, Children, Dad

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• For anyone that has ever done a sex scene, it takes on the feeling of learning a ridiculous dance, like the electric slide. It's not a sexy experience.

  Lena Dunham

  Sexy, Feelings, Done

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful story, a person that you and I might truly encounter.

  Lena Dunham

  Character, Encounters, Stories

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

• I remember it made me feel better because so many of my friends at school. Were doing that stuff and doing that stuff on sleep overs. But I just didn't feel ready. It wasn't like I had any judgment of it being two women. It would have scared me as much if not more. I was like a three month period in which all the words sleep over was code for was "let's get together and touch each other's vaginas." and I was. Haunted. And I remember going home and feeling like I couldn't tell my mother even though she would've understood and probably laughed.

  Lena Dunham

  Mother, Sleep, Home

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that I would go and read.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Book, Pages

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible, and even though I knew adult gay people and had absolutely no issue with it. And I just couldn't articulate what made me so uncomfortable about the space that I shared with my friends becoming a sexual space. And it was very healing for me to read that, and feel like it was a part of other friendships, even fictional friendships I admire.

  Lena Dunham

  Summer, Eye, Healing

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated each other and were sort of in love with each other.

  Lena Dunham

  Summer, Writing, Character

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• My parents were open about sex. And my dad makes paintings that have a sexual component and it still scares me.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Dad, Parent

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• My dad once told me that he would rather I had an old boyfriend than a tall boyfriend. I don't know why, I think he's just feels stressed by... He' not that short I just think the idea of a really tall guy is super anxiety producing to him. And now I'm with neither old guy nor a very tall guy. So everything has worked out perfectly.

  Lena Dunham

  Dad, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.

  Lena Dunham

  Confession

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I don't really have a place where people can reach me via email because it got a little overwhelming. People tweet things at me like, "oh DM me for a great story that you'll definitely need to use on the show," which I don't, you know, DM them.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Littles, Email

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.

  Lena Dunham

  Guy, Fans, Needs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Basically my new litmus test for people is, do they make me hear about a blow job they gave in the first ten minutes of us talking? And if they didn't then I can feel excited.

  Lena Dunham

  Jobs, Blow, Talking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• It's not that I don't want to hear about that [blow job] stuff, I just want to hear about it immediately. And I want to hear about it on more comfortable terms.

  Lena Dunham

  Jobs, Blow, Want

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• Of course you don't want anybody to feel shame for their sexuality. But you also want to make it clear that a loud, a loud and proud approach to your sexuality at a young age isn't necessary to be a fully integrated person.

  Lena Dunham

  Age, Proud, Want

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I think some people are really connected to who they were as children. And some people aren't.

  Lena Dunham

  Children, Thinking, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• My mom said the term heavy petting existed a lot when she was in high school.

  Lena Dunham

  Mom, School, Heavy

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net