Latest Alia Shawkat Quotes from Interviews

• I'm lucky right now because I'm not that famous, people will look at the work just as the work, and people respond to it pretty well. It's just hard to know exactly what group I need to meet and where I need to be. I think fame helps, but I want it to be separate as much as it can. Fame is just so weird, people just love famous people.

  Alia Shawkat

  Thinking, People, Lucky

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's always nerve-wracking; it's like going to a new school every time you start a new movie. There are so many people and you're trying to be comfortable and vulnerable on set in order to be fearless on camera. But it's fun, it's part of the job. You've just got to be very personable, I guess.

  Alia Shawkat

  Fun, School, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Alia Shawkat

  Real, Thinking, Long

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

• 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. It's take a little from here, take a little from there.

  Alia Shawkat

  Jobs, Memories, People

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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

  Alia Shawkat

  Kids

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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

  Alia Shawkat

  Writing, Stories, Want

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

• I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to act. When I was younger, it was so much fun, and I really wanted it, but it was not competitive. Then I became a teenager and it became kind of competitive and not as much fun. I pulled back and I got lazy about it, where I was like, "Yeah, I guess, I'll do small parts in cool movies," but I wasn't really trying to say anything.

  Alia Shawkat

  Fun, Teenager, Years

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

• Obviously the way people watch TV has changed so much, too, that it's not necessarily about the ratings anymore. There's a different kind of time lapse; you put it out there and people absorb it at their speed, not just on Monday night at eight.

  Alia Shawkat

  Monday, Night, Eight

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

• Let's not get too comfortable with each other.

  Alia Shawkat

  Comfortable

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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

  Alia Shawkat

  Long, Scared

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

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

  Alia Shawkat

  Being Single, Want, Scared

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

• 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.

  Alia Shawkat

  Character, Acting, Kind

  "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

• It is important to be involved in everything.

  Alia Shawkat

  Important, Involved

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Alia Shawkat

  Tv Shows, Tvs, Kind

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Alia Shawkat

  Couple, Focus, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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

  Alia Shawkat

  Careers, Roles

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Alia Shawkat

  Love Is, People, Particular

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Alia Shawkat

  Character, Thinking, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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

  Alia Shawkat

  Nice, Home, Busy

  Source: collider.com

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

  Alia Shawkat

  Actors, Want

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Alia Shawkat

  Running, Years, Long

  Source: collider.com

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

  Alia Shawkat

  Watches, Facts, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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