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" 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. "

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" 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 taken care of. That's really my nature. "

Pamela Adlon

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Wait

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Being a mother is the ultimate training ground for anything. "

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

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

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

" I think, over the years, the way my daughters' friends have embraced me has definitely made my daughters appreciate me more. Of course they take me for granted because I'm the one who's there, but listen, I don't want to be 'the cool mom' who lets things get out of control.That's not my lookout. "

" 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

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Guilt

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" When you hit your 40s, you're walking around, and you realize, 'Oh, my God, men don't look at me anymore.' Or sometimes you can feel really good, and then you look in the mirror, and you're like, 'Oh, Jesus, that's my face now!' But I have tell you that something happened and shifted inside of me. "

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

" 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. "

Pamela Adlon

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Mom

" I always tell young people when I'm trying to encourage them, 'You have certain windows in your life, and you have to take advantage of it. You gotta jump through because they will shut on you.' "

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

" 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. "

" I get up at 6 A.M., and sometimes I make lunch for my two youngest kids. Usually my oldest sleeps late, and I get my kids out the door to school. For years, it was me just doing all of that and then driving to a carpool or this or that. "

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

Pamela Adlon

Hurt

People

" 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

" '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

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