Alia Shawkat Quotes

I'm learning that you have to make time for what's important. You have to fight to carve little pieces of happiness out of your life, or the everyday emergencies will eat up everything.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

I enjoy the balance I have in my life.

I'm better when I'm busy. I am happier. I am a bit useless when I'm not busy. I start thinking too much, which is never a good thing. When I'm busy I have a better perspective on what really matters - the priorities.

I think it's important to have as much as a normal life and take the time to get perspective because it only helps your work in the long run.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

As with most things in my life, I believe you should try to enjoy yourself and never feel like you are a slave to a routine.

I had tried to get focused on other things. But I always ended up back in the same place, and it wasn't making me happy. I needed to get the focus back.

My secret to a long, healthy life is to always keep working. It keeps me busy and happy and gives me a reason to stay alive.

To continue to work, to continue to love what you do, is certainly a contributing element to one's longevity and health.

I think, as human beings, we need some balance in our life, right?

Your rhythm is what matters to you so much that when you miss it you're resentful of your work...So find your rhythm, understand what makes you resentful, and protect it.

Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done.

The whole thing is, do as much as you can, when you possibly can, and don't stress.

If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out.

I have a great drive to make things and sometimes I forget to slow down a little.

My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.

I don't have the time to be bored.

I tell my staff, 'Give me your best, and then go home and live your life.' I've never asked anyone to work harder, but I've told plenty that they needed rest.

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

If I have one thing on in a week, I find it very difficult to get back to work that week. I need a lot of dreaming time.

I think I'm realising more and more that I've got a job to do and I can't be doing the big nights out and working to my full potential the next day. I feel much better for it.

I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.