"Once I grew up and realised 'What am I doing?' I started re-listening to the music I was playing and I realised there was so much finesse - it was dynamic and simple but I wanted to be authentic to the original songs."

“I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!”

“Over the last 10 years, India's perception has gone from being a beggar country to an economic superpower.”

“Free as a bird to settle where I will.”

“I have been acting for almost 20 years now. At first it changed in my focus and how much I wanted to act. When I was younger, it was so much fun, and I really wanted it, but it was not competitive. Then I became a teenager and it became kind of competitive and not as much fun. I pulled back and I got lazy about it, where I was like, "Yeah, I guess, I'll do small parts in cool movies," but I wasn't really trying to say anything.”

Source : "Alia Shawkat" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2016.

“Humor is tragedy plus time.”

“Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb”

“And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture.”

“The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.”