Pamela Adlon Quotes

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Pamela Adlon

Profession : Actress

Birth : July 9, 1966

I've always been kind of a mom. I was out of my house when I was 18, and my friends used to call me 'mother' and 'care unit.'

Pamela Adlon

The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

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I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.

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You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can do is just try to talk to your own kids.

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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.

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I love that, 'mommy-shaming.' When I was a new mom, I was obsessed with how I was being perceived and trying to fit in as a mom, going to mommy-and-me classes and things like that, and never quite measuring up to 'the real moms,' the 'robot moms,' as I called them.

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One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that you can't sustain for four straight hours.

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Literally, FX is like, 'How can we foster your vision?' My vision is pretty much taking pictures of the way I see my life.

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Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting.

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I am a single mom of three girls, and I'm getting through that. If I can get through that, I can direct a whole season of television that I star in.

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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.

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If I'm doing a voice-over session, like animation or something, and I'm doing three different voices, you've gotta separate them. You've gotta find the different places and do your different things.

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I want to elevate the mundane.

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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.

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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.

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I like people to have their own reaction and their own take on things. And I don't like to shove my - what I want them to feel or think - down their throats. I like people to say, 'What was that about?' or 'Why did that happen?' And so, any reactions are welcome.

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I try to direct myself the way I direct the other actors who come on my show.

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I just like to keep things small and subtle and authentic, and ground everything in reality. So that is something that I feel is my strength as a director and I try to achieve as an actor.

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I can't imagine bringing in somebody else to direct my show. Wouldn't that be funny, if next season I had, like, Michael Bay come in and direct 'Better Things'? I wonder what that would be like?

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You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change.

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