Quotes from Alia Shawkat

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

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

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

I've definitely gone through phases where I'm not happy with my life, and you notice in little ways until they start adding up.

I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.

I've been a big fan of Michael Showalter's for a long time. I watched 'Stella' growing up.

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

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.

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.

Rosie Perez is the coolest. She's kind of everything you want her to be. She's involved in so many cool things, political charities and stuff.

My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.

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

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.

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

I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me to try out. I was really bitter for a while, because it sucks when you don't get good scripts after working on good quality.

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 got to work with Eli Vargas. Great guy. Huge in Spain. He's a heartthrob there. Who else? Terry Crews - he was really funny.

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'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch. It's more entertaining for me to watch these characters fresh, after one episode, instead of waiting a whole week.

There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.

I usually play grounded, has-their-head-on-straight kind of sassy girls.

Over time, I've been more recognized.

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.

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.