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Pamela Adlon
Pamela Adlon
American Actress
Born: Jul 9, 1966
Because Life Me Mom People You
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Being a mother is the ultimate training ground for anything. Pamela Adlon
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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. Pamela Adlon
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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 the middle of a long-running series. Pamela Adlon
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst. Pamela Adlon
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I try to direct myself the way I direct the other actors who come on my show. Pamela Adlon
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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 favorite. And then, filmmaking from the '70s is a big influence for me. Pamela Adlon
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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
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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 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. Pamela Adlon
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My life is extraordinary because it's so normal, but it's so 'extra' for some reason. Pamela Adlon
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Cooking is the best occupational therapy for me. And when I cook, everybody comes to eat. It's the greatest thing. Pamela Adlon
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I've been working since I'm 9 years old. Pamela Adlon
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I want to elevate the mundane. Pamela Adlon
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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 take advantage of it. You gotta jump through because they will shut on you.' Pamela Adlon
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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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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
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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
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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
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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. Pamela Adlon
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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 times. And out of that, I get to laugh. Pamela Adlon
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Everything that happens to me in a day enhances my parenting. Pamela Adlon
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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. Pamela Adlon
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I took my daughters to see Plastic Ono Band at the Orpheum in L.A. in 2012. It was an amazing experience because she is such a revolutionary artist. Everybody was like, 'Oh, it's Yoko, it's such a joke.' But it's no joke what she did, visually and musically. It's incredible. Pamela Adlon
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I want to create opportunities for women, of course. Pamela Adlon
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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. Pamela Adlon
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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. Pamela Adlon
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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
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