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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.

- Pamela Adlon

Past, Been, Part, Hilarious

Being a mother is the ultimate training ground for anything.

- Pamela Adlon

Mother, Training, Ultimate, Training Ground

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Love, Measuring, Classes, Robot

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Play, Date, Been, Old School

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

- Pamela Adlon

Cook, Therapy, Everybody, Occupational

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

- Pamela Adlon

Car, Driving, Top, Lungs

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Doing, Everybody, Housewives, Diego

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

Voice, Tone, Having, Naturalistic

I'm very influenced by documentary filmmaking and independent filmmaking, by a lot of noir and films from the '40s. Those are my favorite. And then, filmmaking from the '70s is a big influence for me.

- Pamela Adlon

Big, Very, Films, Noir

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Own, Feel, About, Shove

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Sometimes, Here, About, Hey

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?

- Pamela Adlon

Next, Like, Imagine, Season

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Television, Star, Through, Season

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

- Pamela Adlon

Never, Waste, Always, Frame

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Doing, Like, Gotta, Table

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Always, Been, Which, Fully

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Voice, Doing, Hours, Animation

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, Different Places, Animation

I learned so much from my life as an actor, as a kid actor through being an adult actor, and then becoming a writer and producer and doing animation.

- Pamela Adlon

My Life, Doing, Through, Animation

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Replace, Cleaner, Voices, Adolescent

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Waste, Everybody, Very, Thrive

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

- Pamela Adlon

Feel, Like, Planet, Feelings

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Control, Own, Regulate, Exposed

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

- Pamela Adlon

My Life, Extraordinary, Some, Extra

For me, running a set and directing has been the most rewarding thing of my life and a happy surprise, because it was never really on my radar.

- Pamela Adlon

Surprise, My Life, Been, Radar

Wouldn't it be funny if I were a total nightmare? If I just shot 21-hour days and went over budget? But, you know, it's something I'm really careful about, because I am a mom, and also, I'm an actor. I'm a pleaser: I don't want to take up too much of people's time.

- Pamela Adlon

Mom, Careful, About, Budget

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Through, Middle, Going, Puberty

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,' or something like that.

- Pamela Adlon

Thought, Always, Like, Sir

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.

- Pamela Adlon

Office, Own, Had, Unemployment

I learned so much from the writing on 'King of the Hill', which I thought was just magnificent. They would let real moments happen in this animated, one-dimensional world. I feel like I've been in school this whole time.

- Pamela Adlon

Thought, Been, Magnificent, Animated

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