Alia Shawkat Quotes

It's best if I stay out of future plans and let time go on.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

I have disassociated myself from that book.

I think we spend so much of our lives trying to pretend that we know what's going to happen next. In fact we don't. To recognize that we don't know even what will happen this afternoon and yet having the courage to move forward - that's one meaning of faith.

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

When you are not missing something, longing for something, you don't really think about it that much. It's like that girlfriend you don't want to have anymore. You don't think about her anymore. Or ex-husband. You just don't.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

I have X'd myself from your world.

I know nothing about letting go.

There's never any ability to plan a personal life.

When I finish a job, I surrender it completely. I have to, because after that, it really is out of my hands.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

The real reason for apathy is usually a feeling of powerlessness.

I never make a choice thinking about the results. I'm never gonna take a role or a project thinking where this could - what this could bring me or something like that, because you've got no control about anything, actually.

I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

You don't have any kind of control ultimately. Things are just going to happen as they will. And I think your best option sometimes is just to react rather than try to plan everything out in advance.

Relationships are temporary, and everyone needs to understand that.

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.

Honestly, who knows 100 per cent what they will do next year?

As for the future, you can never predict it, so I don't even think about it.

No one sets their life out and says, 'Boy, this is what I think I'm going to go through.'

You realize there are things you can't control. You can't control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.