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" I'm trying to keep my days very efficient, and I keep my set really tight. Every single corner is active, and everybody gets to thrive in the job that they do. I don't waste people's time. "

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" 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

Friends

Care

Mom

" 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. "

Pamela Adlon

Doing

Find

" I want to create opportunities for women, of course. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" There's something in my voice tonally that's like a boy, so I started being able to do boy voices and to be known as having a naturalistic boy tone without pushing it. "

Pamela Adlon

Started

Tone

" They would call me 'The Cleaner' because I would replace boys who were real adolescents, and their voices completely changed, and they couldn't do the voices anymore. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been adapting ever since my oldest had her first play date with a boy, and I was like, 'That's not normal,' because I came from the old school. Now boys sleep over at my house. It doesn't matter which girl, which age. "

" 'Roseanne' was massive for me. I adored that show. I mean, the show was this couple who weren't cookie-cutter, and they were sexy, and we know that they like to have sex with each other, and they flirted, and then they ragged on their kids, and their kids ragged on them, and it was such a realistic depiction. "

Pamela Adlon

Know

Mean

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

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

" It's a hilarious part of my past, all the sitcoms I did in the '80s. And then all the animation - animation is amazing. It's really been great. "

" I want to elevate the mundane. "

" I'm somebody who, if I went to the grocery store, and one of them wasn't with me, I would feel guilty. I would be like, 'I shouldn't be doing anything without them, anytime, ever.' A very codependent way of thinking. Also, motherhood is hugely about guilt. "

Pamela Adlon

Thinking

Guilt

" 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. "

" I don't usually say 'working mom' because I think all moms are working moms. I feel like that diminishes moms. People should say 'working dad' as opposed to working moms. "

" 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 going. "

Pamela Adlon

Going

People

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

" You can go in and out of love and still love somebody, you know? You may not like them so much on the day, but I can tell you that I don't think I've ever been so vulnerable or been so angry in my life - like, those two emotions feel so hurt or so enraged - as when you're dealing with your kids. "

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

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

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

" Sometimes when I'm in the editing room and there's a new person there, like a music editor or a post person that I don't really know, I'm like, 'Oh, you shouldn't be in here. This is too personal - you can't watch this.' But then I'm like, hey dummy, you're about to show this to the whole world. "

" I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh. "

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