American - Actress | April 18, 1989 -
I was born and grew up in Palm Springs. It's a great place to grow up, a real small town.
Alia Shawkat
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On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.
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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.
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It would be great to do theater one day, but I don't think I'd do a musical.
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Empathy is why entertainment is always growing, and for millennials, everyone is judging them and trying to grab their attention by insulting them. We're living in a time where everyone has 25 profiles, and they're having 25 conversations.
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After 'Arrested Development,' I didn't know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was hitting this wall, where I was the 'ethnic best friend' or the 'sassy teenager.' It felt like the same note, and I didn't feel like I was growing.
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I feel very lucky 'Arrested Development' was so successful because I never really got too much attention, and I was able to evolve instead of only being seen as one character.
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There are definitely a lot of roles I didn't get based off of the way I look, but I'm not going to let that stop me. I'm going to write stories for myself or work with filmmakers who want to tell stories about real people.
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When I was in New York, I put together a show; I put together this really great band and performed at this place called Littlefield in Brooklyn. It was really fun. I did, like, 10 standards, and then I just hopped around different bars like Mona's and different jazz clubs in New York just singing because I know all the standards so well.
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It feels good to sing. Everybody should sing!
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I usually play grounded, has-their-head-on-straight kind of sassy girls.
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I've been a big fan of Michael Showalter's for a long time. I watched 'Stella' growing up.
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