Lena Dunham Quotes

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

The whole selfie generation - it's just not my vibe.

We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

If an alien came down from Mars and saw us all taking selfies and the like, I think it'd up and leave. It'd think we were all mad.

I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago.

Never hold up your entire group of friends in real life trying to capture a perfect Instagram pose. Nobody cares.

When you see how people in the developing world react and how they use a camera, you realise how narcissistic we are and how the filming of ourselves and thinking that we're interesting enough to care about is odd.

I think the selfie age is kind of making fame annoying.

We live in such a narcissistic world where people love to be in front of the camera.

What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you're posing in.

If you look at this generation of selfies and selfies and selfies, it seems a little bit scary. I like to see a driven kid, somebody who wants to come from the ground up.

I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.

Narcissism as a virtue is very futuristic. Narcissism as a quality is where I think things are heading.

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.

People who talk only of themselves think only of themselves.

Those social networks, there's something sad about them. Is it because they don't have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don't understand it. It's like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Actors are all narcissists.

Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.