Lena Dunham

My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

I thought I was really a radical, political person, which of course I am not.

At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

You're raised to think being a mother is an inevitable step in your development but you start to ask yourself questions, because not every woman does want to have children.

I'm half Jewish half WASP.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.