Lena Dunham Quotes

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations, just be the best you can be

I need to have perspective. That's one of the big things former players told me, to not try to live up to anything, just live up to yourself.

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.

I'm losing myself trying to compete with everyone else, instead of just being me.

I just try to do me, and I feel like it works.

Trying to be perfect may be inevitable for people who are smart and ambitious and interested in the world and its good opinion...What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

You should embrace who you are, and make the best person that you can be, not what somebody else wants you to be.

Never stop being YOU. I am out to be the best ME I can be. Do what you LOVE and you will be badass.

Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure and far from the goal.

I gave up trying to please others and started playing for myself, and because I love music, things naturally happened then. Funny how that works.

People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.

It's a little silly to finally learn how to write at this age. But I long ago realized I was secretly sincere.

I just try to live my life and do my thing.

What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much further along than you are; there are stars, but learn to be who you are and to play yourself. Be confident in that fact.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

Be yourself is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

If you can understand the inner life, then you can wear the uniform, the tattoos, or whatnot and realize that the things that are different about us become superficial.

What we must try to be, of course, is ourselves and wholeheartedly. We must find out what we really are and what we really want.

My customer has her own sense of style and knows herself well. My goal is to help women become the best version of themselves.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

I'll never be August Wilson - but what I can be is more of myself.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.