Alia Shawkat Quotes
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Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.
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I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.
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My grandfather talked about James Dean; they were both very much into method acting.
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The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.
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We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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After 'Arrested Development,' I didn't know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I was the 'ethnic best friend' or the 'sassy teenager.' It felt like the same note, and I didn't feel like I was growing.
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I've been a big fan of Michael Showalter's for a long time. I watched 'Stella' growing up.
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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.
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I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good things.
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We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show.
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When I wrap a job, I disconnect with it, and I'm done, even if they said we'd shoot more next year, at this time, which is not the case at all because nobody knows what's happening.
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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.
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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.
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The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.
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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.
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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.
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I was a late bloomer.
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When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.
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I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.
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On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.
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When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.