Lena Dunham Quotes

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I don't necessarily think of myself as a feminist, but I'm a whole person. I'm not just breasts or ass or thighs - I'm a whole being! And it just seems like women aren't necessarily striving to be the whole of themselves.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

Everyone always said, 'When you're 10, you'll want to be Elizabeth, or when you're in college.' And every time, I was was just like, 'No, I'm Beanie. That's who I am.' So I love my name because I think it really suits me.

I know what my identity is.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

There is more to me than my boobs and my boyfriends.

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutionized.

But I am more than a name. More than they tell me

I've learned that all you can be in this world is you. No matter how much you mess with yourself, with surgery or you know, clothes or cut your hair differently or how much you wish and pray and dream that you're gonna wake up as someone else, it's never gonna happen. You have one life and one opportunity, and all you can be is the best you.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

I guess what I know now that I definitely didn't know as a child, is that being truest to yourself is the greatest weapon in the war to achieve. That sounds really negative, but in conquering or achieving something. I think, as a child, I thought I had to be somebody else.

There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

And my identity...I never really wondered about it because, unfortunately, I sounded like myself. People be saying I sound like Miles or Clifford Brown.

The point of life that I'm currently at is a 'me right now' type of attitude. I am 37 years-old, my son is in college and my daughter is in high school. I'm becoming okay with me. I can't live life as an artist or person being someone that someone else has tried to mold me into. I'm not going to put on a dress that's two sizes too small. I'm custom making my own clothes so that they'll never fit anyone else if you know what I mean.

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

Never categorize yourself, society does that to you, don't do it to yourself.

I've read a lot of different versions of myself - and all of them are true because it's all opinion, and they're as accurate as it can ever be. But I don't think that I've been deft at hiding parts of my personality.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

I want to continue to be me and share with people.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.