Alia Shawkat

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…

— Alia Shawkat

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

— Alia Shawkat

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

— Alia Shawkat

I hope to be painting more and travelling. Maybe fall in love. Have a dog one day. You know, all the good…

— Alia Shawkat

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

— Alia Shawkat

With independent film, as an actor, you have more involvement - it's very much more connected. It's not just like I'm showing…

— Alia Shawkat

There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to…

— Alia Shawkat

We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just…

— Alia Shawkat

I've worked with a couple of female directors now, and I think that they're amazing. As good or better than guy directors.

— Alia Shawkat

I went on an audition once for a show, and the feedback was to play an angry teen. My agent convinced me…

— Alia Shawkat

I would do a movie musical.

— Alia Shawkat

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

— Alia Shawkat

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

— Alia Shawkat

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid.

— Alia Shawkat

It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.

— Alia Shawkat

I'm not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it's always after the fact because I like to binge watch.

— Alia Shawkat

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

— Alia Shawkat

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

— Alia Shawkat

I think how I've gotten better, hopefully, at taking what I've got and being able to mish-mash something together, and as long…

— 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…

— Alia Shawkat

It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!

— Alia Shawkat

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

— Alia Shawkat

I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to…

— 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…

— Alia Shawkat

After 'Arrested Development,' I didn't know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I…

— Alia Shawkat