Alia Shawkat Quotes

The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.

I think how I've gotten better, hopefully, at taking what I've got and being able to mish-mash something together, and as long as it feels real to me in the moment, then it feels like a success.

The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.

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.

I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.

I feel like when you're dealing with your main character, it has to be relatable and feel grounded, and that's the kind of acting I like to do anyway.

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

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

Let's not get too comfortable with each other.

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

I want to do film and TV. I want to make good stories. I want to write; I want to be more involved.

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid.

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 love being on movie sets. It's a very particular setting. And not all of the time, most of the time, there's always people you don't like, and you have to see them every day.

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

Acting is a very strange industry in that it flows in these weird ways, I'll be so busy for 6 months and then nothing for a couple months, so it's hard for me to focus and stuff.

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

Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.

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

I've been single for so long that I'm scared of being in a relationship.

You don't want to not be single because you're scared of being single.

It is important to be involved in everything.

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.