Alia Shawkat Quotes

I think it's much more interesting when people say, "I love being famous. I love the attention and getting laid and having people I respect admire me," than when they pretend it hasn't had an effect on them.

My being some kind of celebrity - not a real celebrity, isn't a welcome part of the job.

Celebrity is very weird.

Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.

I know who famous people are, so I listen to them.

Fame often comes to those who are thinking about something else, whereas celebrity comes to those who think about nothing else. Celebrity is, if you like, a forgery of fame: it has the form but lacks the content.

Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

There are so many third-rate people now who are more famous than people who should be famous, but sometimes people who could or should be famous are very boring, too.

So in that way, fame has become a weirder thing to go after, but the thing about me is I've never been after fame. That sounds cliché, but it's true. I think fame sounds uncomfortable to me, but being able to like write this book and make my living doing very exciting, creative stuff sounds really amazing. It has been really amazing.

People think fame and money will bring you happiness. Fame actually makes life, especially human relationships, much more complicated.

It's pretty clear that fame isn't inextricably connected with merit .

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

I don't think anything could prepare you for whatever fame is. Fame is a very hard word to define cause it means different things to different people for different reasons so I never really think of it as fame, I think of it as part of the job.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

I have no sense of being famous - you're just working. And then you'll have a random day in London when you'll do some press and it creeps into your awareness that this goes out - that what you do every day goes out to televisions right across the country.

I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me.

It's like if people don't see you on TV every day, they think you're in cryogenics somewhere.

I had my issues with the Kardashians, absolutely. I think there's so much wrong with how they are the most revered family in the country, but they are, nevertheless.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

I believe in wishing my colleagues and other celebs in a manner that brings my wit out and gives people a talking point. But there are people who love and those who hate you. That's part of a celeb's life.

The celebrity craze is a little much. But it's good for me, so you don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Anyone who is on the verge of kind of famous but not really relevant is kind of fun to play with.

I just want to be a normal lad and not known as 'that bloke off the telly.'

I'm not a movie star, but I still get my photograph taken when I walk down the street, hundreds of times. I never say no.

Unfortunately, celebrity is a powerful thing. It can influence people, but if it can influence people in a good way, then that's a great thing.