Pamela Adlon

Birthday: 9 July 1966, New York City, New York, USA

Birth Name: Pamela Fionna Segall

Height: 152 cm

Pamela Adlon comes from an acting family and began her career in television in 1983. She has appeared in many popular TV shows, including as a voice actress in a number of animated TV series including, most famously, King of the Hill (1997) for which she won an Emmy for her role as Bobby Hill.

I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on The Facts of Life (1979)...Show more »

I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on The Facts of Life (1979) 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. Show less «

The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through...Show more »

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. Show less «

Before Lucky Louie (2006), nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in ...Show more »

Before Lucky Louie (2006), 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. Show less «

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

I don't think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a sign...Show more »

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. Show less «

My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. An...Show more »

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. Show less «

You can't regulate what these kids are being exposed to on the Internet. It's so way out of control....Show more »

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. Show less «

One of the things I learned in animation is that you never, ever want to start doing a voice that yo...Show more »

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. Show less «

Pamela Adlon

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