Alia Shawkat Quotes

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

I would absolutely love to do another Baz Luhrmann film, especially a 'Moulin Rouge' type picture.

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.

I've always been interested in singing, and I've always been singing and dancing since I was little.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.

I would love to produce a film.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

I really want to do a sci-fi movie.

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

When I was younger, acting, singing, and dancing was what it was all about.

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

To be able to explore the genre of the musical is nice. It was great to be able to sing professionally, for the first time, and dance, which was something that I did growing up, but I had not done for many, many years.

I'm never critical or judgmental about whether or not a movie is any good. The way I look at it, if several hundred people got together every day for a year or so - a number of then willing to put on heavy makeup, wear clothes that weren't their own and pretend to be people other than themselves - and their whole purpose for doing all this was to entertain me, then I'm not gonna start worrying about whether or not they did a good job. The effort alone was enough to make me happy.

I'd like to be a song and dance man.

I'm not much of a song-and-dance man.

Once a song and dance man, always a song and dance man. Those few words tell as much about me professionally as there is to tell.

A musical is really one of the most complicated beasts. It's a play, and there's music... and there's dancing... it's unbelievably satisfying to get something up out of your brain onto a piece of paper ... and start the process and then see it on the stage.

For the first 25 years of my career, I did nothing but sing and dance.

Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.