74 Quotes by Alia Shawkat

Right when I turned 18, I moved to New York, originally for school, and then dropped out and just lived in New York.

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

We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.