Alia Shawkat Quotes & Sayings

“Kids can be harsh, especially when they get jealous.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I guess I've always been drawn to roles that have smart characters commenting on what's happening around them.”

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

“In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers.”

“The main thing I got from growing up in a suburb is the boredom you have as a child.”

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

“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.”

“With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.”