Alia Shawkat quotes
It's nice when you get to leave and travel and be busy and then come home.
It's nice when you get to leave and travel and be busy and then come home.
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 part of you you're using.
As an actor you want to just like, act as much as possible.
The biggest challenge is how you get money for independent films, in these ever-changing times when most people don't really want to invest in that anymore.
I don't even have cable anymore, or a television. I just watch on computers. It's clearly the future of where we're heading.
Ever since I started as an actress, just to catch up on some money, but not having an income for three years was tricky.
I think there's a big misconception out there about actors and the choices they have. I think if you're one of a lucky five, maybe, you're that privileged, but most of us are living paycheck to paycheck and we're really extremely grateful for opportunities.
I always loved the challenge. When something new happened, I always used to get quite excited.
I think main storylines are what always intrigued me, with those that were the relationships between the characters against whatever backdrop, whether it was in an ordinary universe or a universe in the future.
My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my managers, at present. I just have no idea what's going to be offered to me.
We didn't know until really quite late in the piece how Joel [Wyman] would finish it off.
I have a very special love for all of those actors [in Fringe] and I'll miss them.Over the five years, we were given the chance to develop some pretty close bonds, both with our characters and personally, and we did.
The international reach of Fringe still catches me by surprise a bit, at times. Also, I was given the gift of a character that is every actor's dream. So, you combine those two factors and it's been an incredibly memorable five years.
I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.
I didn't drop into the mannerisms of another version of the character, but I guess I was pretty alert to that.
Fringe is essentially a love story, so the scenes where Walter had close connection with Peter, but also with Anna's character or Jasika's character, were very special to me.
I've played a bunch of different versions of Walter [from Fringe].I loved it when he was being random, which was probably the original version of him, more than anyone else. I loved doing Walter then, and all of the different mental states that we've played.
Any time you do a movie there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.
I'm a huge baby and horror films just terrify me, they're very effective with me.
That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.