I feel very lucky.

- 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 made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.

- Alia Shawkat

I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.

- Alia Shawkat

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.

- Alia Shawkat

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.

- Alia Shawkat

When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.

- 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

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

- 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.

- 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 stuff.

- Alia Shawkat

I would do a movie musical.

- Alia Shawkat

I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town.

- Alia Shawkat

I was a late bloomer.

- Alia Shawkat

I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.

- Alia Shawkat

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

- Alia Shawkat

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.

- Alia Shawkat

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

- 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 up and there's another actor on the call sheet; you're very attached to it.

- Alia Shawkat

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.

- Alia Shawkat

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

- Alia Shawkat