Lena Dunham Quotes

It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.

I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the way I made money.

For many, the American dream has become a nightmare.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped.

You’ve got to stop beating up your women because you can’t find a job because you didn’t want to get an education and now you’re [earning] minimum wage.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere, which was part of the reason I was homeless. I couldn't get a job pumping gas. I couldn't get a job working at a warehouse, I couldn't get a job at Baskin Robbins, I couldn't get a job anywhere.

I never interned. The first job I ever had was a very low-paying job, and the guy running the radio station was so poor, he couldn't pay us sometimes - so it's almost like an internship, right?

I do feel a bit dejected about my film career. I am sad that it didn't take off as expected. I didn't get my due as an actor. I have an attractive personality and good looks. But I don't know what went wrong? You need to stop thinking about such things and move on.

I'd done an EP, and nothing came from that, and I didn't know where to go from there.

I had held titles in all the major U.K. organisations, but we were struggling to make ends meet. There were times you don't have a fight lined up, and the bills are stacking up.

I've taken regular gigs, I've worked in grocery stores, worked as a dishwasher, a porter in different places, all for survival. I don't feel bad about doing it. I wished I could have done better. And still do.

It's so difficult to make the money we produce at Jimmy John's.