Words matter. These are the best Alia Shawkat Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.
As an actress, you never know when you’re going to work again – and there’s so much dependency on working.
Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We’re living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they’re having 25 conversations.
I definitely had a weird thing of being attracted to older men. Never my family friends, never my dad’s friends.
It would be great to do theater one day, but I don’t think I’d do a musical.
I’m more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid. I still do a form of sense memory. It honestly depends on the job. It depends on the other people you’re working with, how the other actor works.
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.
I usually play grounded, has-their-head-on-straight kind of sassy girls.
Over time, I’ve been more recognized.
I’ve worked with a couple of female directors now, and I think that they’re amazing. As good or better than guy directors.
My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.
But I love singing, and I’ve been singing backup for friends’ bands.
I feel very lucky ‘Arrested Development’ was so successful because I never really got too much attention, and I was able to evolve instead of only being seen as one character.
I got to work with Eli Vargas. Great guy. Huge in Spain. He’s a heartthrob there. Who else? Terry Crews – he was really funny.
I guess I’ve always been drawn to roles that have smart characters commenting on what’s happening around them.
The millennial generation wants to express every feeling to feel like you’re connected to it, and there’s something very dark about tragedy that people are drawn to.
It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!
I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.
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 want to put down my work – I’m very proud of the work I’ve done.
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.
When I’m working, I’m pretty busy with that, but when I’m not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It’s kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I’ve been writing with some friends.
