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

- Alia Shawkat

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

- Alia Shawkat

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

- Alia Shawkat

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…

- Alia Shawkat

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 pa…

- Alia Shawkat

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 comfor…

- Alia Shawkat

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'…

- Alia Shawkat

It is important to be involved in everything.

- Alia Shawkat

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 …

- Alia Shawkat