I go into work and get my hair and makeup done, go into wardrobe. I have to do three hours of school a day.
I read the scripts and I shoot the show, yet I miss so many jokes. It moves so quickly-you have to pay attention to every little joke.
I think the bleeping is part of the humor. I think it's funny when they bleep it out.
I've never felt too good about FOX. They're always keeping us on the edge. We never really know about anything.
In my opinion FOX is known for being a network that just advertises, and that's pretty much how they get their viewers.
The words are ludicrous at times, but you add the reality to it and that gives it the balance it has.
We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.
We're not going to dumb down for them. They have to move up. They're the network and we're the show.
When I get a new script my mom will read them and just be aghast. I think it's hysterical.
She loves to hear Oldies, some Rap, Rock and Pop.
Actors she would like to work with include: Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and her grandfather, Paul Burke.
Alia's parents are Dina and Tony Shawkat.
Nominated: Best Performance in a TV Comedy Series; Leading Young Actress for, State of Grace (2002).
She appeared in a Lifetime movie original Not Like Everyone Else, based on the true story of, Brandi Blackbear.
Alia has 2 pet cats named Max and Simba.
Alia is in the movie; Deck the Halls (2006) with Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick.
As of 2006 she splits her time between her home and Rancho Mirage and Los Angeles where she resides with her parents and her two brothers.
Her great-great-grandfather, Martin P. Burke, was a New Orleans policeman in 1898.
Alia's former State of Grace co-star, Mae Whitman, had a recurring role her third TV show, Arrested Development.
When she is not filming, she attends a private school near her home in Rancho Mirage, where she studies; English, Physics, Math, Geography and Drama.
One of her ambitions is to attend Yale University, studying International Relations.
She is the granddaughter of Paul Burke, who appeared as Detective Adam Flint on the TV series Naked City (1959) and fomer dancer Peggy Pryor.
Alia's father is Iraqi and her mother is of Irish and Norwegian origin.
She was the little girl in the movie, Three Kings, in which her father had a cameo.
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