342 Quotes by Lena Dunham

If you watch my movie, you understand I am perverse and weird and angry and not looking to direct a film that ends with a bunch of teenagers exploding into glitter.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

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

When it’s low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.

I went to schools that were small enough that basically everyone was in a play. I played a bouncing ball in a production of Alice in Wonderland and a fat man in an Italian commedia dell’arte play. I was given some small chances.

I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn’t really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.

I just don’t want to be around people who don’t hate everything in their life right now.

The parts I enjoy playing aren’t really available to me. So I have to write them.

You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from.