Pamela Adlon

I want to create opportunities for women, of course.

— Pamela Adlon

I want to elevate the mundane.

— Pamela Adlon

I've been working since I'm 9 years old.

— Pamela Adlon

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

— Pamela Adlon

The first thing that I ever made was a documentary that I shot... in downtown L.A. about a group of homeless people.

— Pamela Adlon

Everybody hates you when youre the best, and everybody hates you when youre the worst.

— Pamela Adlon

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

— Pamela Adlon

Cooking is the best occupational therapy for me. And when I cook, everybody comes to eat. It's the greatest thing.

— Pamela Adlon

I learned so much from the writing on 'King of the Hill', which I thought was just magnificent. They would let real…

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I'm very influenced by documentary filmmaking and independent filmmaking, by a lot of noir and films from the '40s. Those are my…

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I always tell young people when I'm trying to encourage them, 'You have certain windows in your life, and you have to…

— Pamela Adlon

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…

— Pamela Adlon

You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or…

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There was a point a few years ago where I realized I started out playing boys on camera and stage, and then…

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For me, running a set and directing has been the most rewarding thing of my life and a happy surprise, because it…

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I'm not really a person who loves things that are surreal or not grounded in real life or reality. I like that…

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Sometimes when I'm in the editing room and there's a new person there, like a music editor or a post person that…

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I think, over the years, the way my daughters' friends have embraced me has definitely made my daughters appreciate me more. Of…

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You can go in and out of love and still love somebody, you know? You may not like them so much on…

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'Roseanne' was massive for me. I adored that show. I mean, the show was this couple who weren't cookie-cutter, and they were…

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It's spelled, like, S-E-R-G. I always thought it would be funny if I called my son 'Sir.' Like calling your daughter 'Ma'am,'…

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I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful…

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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,…

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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…

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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…

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The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in…

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I never want to waste a frame. I always look and see what I've got.

— Pamela Adlon

Being a mother is the ultimate training ground for anything.

— Pamela Adlon

My life is extraordinary because it's so normal, but it's so 'extra' for some reason.

— Pamela Adlon

I want to be a strong, safe mom who my kids also want to be around.

— Pamela Adlon

Sometimes when I'm in the car driving, I scream at the top of my lungs.

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

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I don't like to let people know where I'm going to end up, and I don't personally like to know where I'm…

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The only people on this planet that can make me feel like my feelings are hurt are my kids.

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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…

— Pamela Adlon

You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control. All you can…

— Pamela Adlon

I've always been kind of a mom. I was out of my house when I was 18, and my friends used to…

— Pamela Adlon

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

— Pamela Adlon

I'm more of somebody who'll bend over backwards for people and, you know, wait at the back of the line until everybody's…

— Pamela Adlon

When I saw 'Louie' and 'Girls', I was blown out of the water. They were fearless portrayals of real life. Everyone has…

— Pamela Adlon