Quote

I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it.

Lena Dunham

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Lena Dunham
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: May 13
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Filmmaker
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Actor
Television Producer
Voice Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
Control
Getting
Littles
Little
Haphazard
Thing
Nude
Anxious
Keeps
Complete

More quotes by Lena Dunham

Image
When it's low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.
Lena Dunham
Image
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
Image
I think some people are really connected to who they were as children. And some people aren't.
Lena Dunham
Image
The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them.
Lena Dunham
Image
It’s interesting to see how other people react to an oversharer.
Lena Dunham
Image
There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.
Lena Dunham
Image
It doesn't occur to so many people that if you don't have a clear heterosexual, gender confirming identity that there are parts of day-to-day life - like using a bathroom or getting your clothes - that just aren't going to be as easy.
Lena Dunham
Image
Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It's sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way.
Lena Dunham
Image
I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.
Lena Dunham
Image
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
Image
I've always loved my own little office spaces no matter what they were like. It's the Virginia Woolf, room of one's own concept, it's really important.
Lena Dunham
Image
But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.
Lena Dunham
Image
My dad finds Twitter just infinitely unrelatable. He's like, 'Why would I want to tell anybody what I had for a snack, it's private?!' And I'm like, 'Why would you even have a snack if you didn't tell anybody? Why bother eating?'
Lena Dunham
Image
Now if you went to someone's house to look for them, you would be a psychopath.
Lena Dunham
Image
My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.
Lena Dunham
Image
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
Image
I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.
Lena Dunham
Image
I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.
Lena Dunham
Image
As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something you felt comfortable in that would properly express your identity, especially when your identity didn't feel like it necessarily matched the one that was being imposed on you.
Lena Dunham
Image
It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.
Lena Dunham