Lena Dunham

It's interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.

— Lena Dunham

I really loved ["The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P" by Adelle Waldman]. It's having a really hot moment. Unlike many hot books,…

— Lena Dunham

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

— Lena Dunham

There is a sort of backlash of people who feel like you're not representing them accurately, and you want to say as…

— Lena Dunham

Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be a psychopath.

— Lena Dunham

A huge part of the American trans population that's often overlooked are trans teenagers. Many of them are homeless, and those are…

— Lena Dunham

I hate to be the person that's like, "We're doing something that's never been done before."

— Lena Dunham

Of course you don't want anybody to feel shame for their sexuality. But you also want to make it clear that a…

— Lena Dunham

There's a certain grace to having your heart broken.

— Lena Dunham

I think that it's very important to be with someone who makes you feel like the best version of yourself. In some…

— Lena Dunham

I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend…

— Lena Dunham

I'm really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I'm directing myself.

— Lena Dunham

Not to speak for Jason [Benjamin], but he's a straight married dude with two kids.

— Lena Dunham

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

— Lena Dunham

It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living…

— Lena Dunham

I always say that I can play sort of six variations on one girl, all of whom are a variation on me.…

— Lena Dunham

Like Summer Sisters comforted me just because I was like, okay things I've seen with my own eyes are not so terrible,…

— Lena Dunham

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

— Lena Dunham

I think Grace [Dunham] and I are always working from a personal place, and the fact that these were issues that we'd…

— Lena Dunham

In Hollywood, you've got a hundred people on set, and shooting the sex scene you're wearing nude-toned underwear and tape on your…

— Lena Dunham

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.

— Lena Dunham

For straight, hetero people it's very easy to unintentionally say something that might not honor people's identities fully, and Grace Dunham is…

— Lena Dunham

I felt highly anxious in a way that I didn't think other children were.

— Lena Dunham

I have an authority problem.

— Lena Dunham

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

— Lena Dunham