Alia Shawkat Quotes

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.

It's weird, not to sound too actor but I think that any time you do a performance, you kind of take a little piece of that character, cause it's a part of you you're using.

Mitch Hurwitz was like a father figure to me. He was so sweet, and he's just so smart.

If you want to do something, then you do it. If you don't want to do something, don't just do it because your friends are doing it, or because all the popular kids are doing it.

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.

With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.

I'm not at the place in my career necessarily where I'm like offered every role.

If your friend's feeling bad, it's hard to know what to do. Do you back away or try to help them? It's a really hard situation that I've been in. You want to support your friend. You want to be there. My advice is, don't get too involved with it, just be by their side. If they need your help, they'll ask for it.

When you focus on life, on enjoying and connecting with other people, that's when work comes. When you focus on work, you can never work. I'm always going through waves of that.

It's nice when you get to leave and travel and be busy and then come home.

Yeah, I've worked with a couple of female directors, now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

But I love singing, and I've been singing backup for friends' bands.

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.

I think with the whole new Internet media, I'm not necessarily Internet savvy, but I just feel that the way that art in general will be presented to the public is going to be different.

American shows can go on for 20 years. I respond more to the British format. Three seasons is a long run for them to tell a story.

I feel very lucky.

You get a kind of familiarity on a set when you're on a TV show.

As an actress, you never know when you're going to work again - and there's so much dependency on working.

As an actor you want to just like, act as much as possible.

I was a late bloomer.

I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch.

Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.