Pamela Adlon Quotes

My voice has changed dramatically over the years.

I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

Right now, my voice is better than ever. It changed. I have better low notes than I had before.

I mean, my voice has gotten a little deeper sounding as I've gotten older, I think. I noticed that.

I had been in a professional boys' choir, and as a boy soprano, you're aware that your voice has an expiration date.

Everyone was like, 'Yeah this kid won't be able to sing when his voice changes, he'll have no career.' But it's gotten much better.

Robin Williams understands sonic performances. He understands what it's like to change your voice up.

The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week.

Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

It's kind of a crazy thing with kid actors because a lot of them get hired without people really knowing if they're good or not. They get hired for the way they look at a really young age. You also have your fingers crossed around kid actors... because the lessons they learn on set aren't always the best. You can really get whatever you want.

I see what kids in the business have to watch. It's tough to do.

My voice broke very late. I think that, deep down, I knew that once it broke, my self-esteem would plummet, as I'd never be head chorister again.

I didn't change my voice for 'The Boondocks.'

It's really weird casting babies; it's kind of the dark underbelly of Hollywood, to meet babies and judge them.

A lot of people don't like child actors.

At times, I feel sorry for kids who have succumbed in some kind of way to being a child actor.

One day in 1952, I woke up with a high voice.

There's a lot of focus on kids like Macaulay Culkin or others who had bad situations at some point in their careers and not enough focus on the people who do good like Natalie Portman or Claire Danes. It's hard for children to have these full-time jobs with all this responsibility.

I didn't know that women go through a vocal change, which is called 'thickening'. Basically, it's like when your body gets ready for childbirth, and so it just grows in a weird way. When I figured that out, I was frustrated with it.

Around age 38, there was a slight change to my voice, and very much in the center. That made it possible to start thinking about certain roles: Guillaume Tell, Romeo, Edgardo. These roles require a fuller center.

They said my voice was terrible, nervous, and spotty and that I must go away and learn how to use it properly. I must admit I was rather agape, since I had never thought about making my voice better.

Hormone replacement therapy does not change or affect your voice. And I have no problem with my voice: I really like my singing voice, I don't feel any dysphoria with my talking voice.

I think, often, child actors are, like, overlooked a little bit.

I had a Saturday job in Barratts shoe shop at the age of 15.

I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.