Lena Dunham Quotes

College is a time where a lot of people try to find themselves.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

By the time you are 30 you are still trying to make your 15-year-old self happy but you are a different person. You need to be brave and let go of that.

People have to learn who they are - you can't have somebody else telling you who you are.

I realised I was living in my own universe with lots of assistants. I didn't have a cell phone; I didn't know how to use a computer. Everybody was doing everything for me. So I left and moved to New York. It was the end of an era, and I must say I found myself a bit lost. I wasn't in the protected Mugler universe any more.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

In my twenties, I was obsessed with what other people thought of me. In my thirties, it's about my children, my husband, my work. In my forties, it's going to be about me, and I shan't care what anyone else thinks. I can't wait!

You need to rebel to see the other options and to get a much richer, fuller sense of the world. And it's only once you've worked through that and seen through that that you can come back and accept who you are. You have to try all the other options.

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

I think the best way is to forget about racing people and just find territory that's fresh.

My rite of passage into my brave new world, life on the road.

I don't think it matters where I came from any more.

I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.

I'm not out trying to prove anything. I'm sort of finished with that, so I get to play in other sandboxes and try and figure out what I like and I'm interested in.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.

I feel like my transition, in a broader sense, began the second I left home and came to New York. Because all of a sudden, I opened myself up to options about how to be.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

It's always relevant - moving forward into the future and finding out who you are. I think those themes never get stale.

I would like to be re-considered as a person.

Obviously, in different circumstances, I definitely related to this idea of feeling claustrophobic and wanting to discover things for yourself. I think that's something that all young people can relate to.

Acting was definitely a comfortable place. It didn't force me into adulthood because I was ready to be independent.

The wilderness rescued me. I have been shaped by my experiences in the great outdoors. Feeling comfortable in the wild gave me the confidence to be who I am, not who others want me to be.