Lena Dunham Quotes

Being brave is not as easy as it looks.

If you get up on stage and brag, I don't think that's very brave. It's braver to get up and take your clothes off. And I do that every night.

As a very small child I found recorded noise and the solitary singer beneath the spotlight so dramatic and so brave... walking the plank... willingly... It was sink or swim. The very notion of standing there, alone, I found beautiful.

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

I suppose you've got to look like you're made of steel for nudity. You've got to get some arms on you.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

I think I'm taking risks and putting myself out there.

It is not easy to pull off your shirt, bare your torso and go beyond it. It needs a lot of conviction. You have to be comfortable in your skin.

I am fearless when I think I'm alone.

It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.

It needs courage to be afraid.

Fear is the raw material from which courage is manufactured. Without it, we wouldn't even know what it means to be brave.

No hero is above fear.

I heard this wonderful quote - "Only the brave show what they love." It's so-embarrassing to approach somebody and say you want to look at them. But without that risk taking, nothing can happen, so I have to make myself vulnerable. What I think is the unifying aspect in people that I like is that they have a sense of their own vulnerability, and I respond to that.

The writer has to be brave, I think.

The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

I have the belief in boldness. What I generally lack is the boldness itself. Because boldness doesn't feel bold. It feels scared not brave.

I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.

I've never thought of myself as being particularly brave - I used to be frightened of the dark when I was small. And I'm not very good with dead rats and things like that. But I face what has to be faced and I hope as best as I'm able.

There’s nothing more daring than showing up, putting ourselves out there and letting ourselves be seen.

You cannot be brave without fear.

We can't be brave without fear.

It feels good to show some courage.

It’s important to be fearless yet vulnerable. It takes courage to do both.