Amber Tamblyn Quotes
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We hung out a lot together. We went and saw films together. It was really actually quite easy. I think we were all very subconsciously connected in knowing that we needed to make it important, and therefore it just became important and it worked. Everybody had a lot of respect for each other. I think respect is the most important thing you can have.
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And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that
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A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next
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My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
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As someone who was born and raised in Los Angeles, I was really interested in the idea of people who move here to get into the business, and some of them do become famous and then oftentimes they fall out of that fame in very terrible ways.
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I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you
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A lot of people think I'm cynical when I talk about acting. The truth of the matter is, I just don't want someone to get some lame advice that will send them in the wrong direction
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When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true.
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Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl's life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.
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People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
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My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
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I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.
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Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it
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The poetry when I was a kid felt like something that I could control, and whether it failed or not, whether it was good or not, was totally on me and I could accept that. It was entirely mine.
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I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that
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After I saw my first poem published, I became interested in the immortalization of words and the fact that you could put something out there that you felt and that meant something to you, and that it could be interpreted by many different people to mean many different things.
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I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality
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Because the role-model pressure becomes so insane, the personal and private takes a backseat to whatever it takes to maintain that fame and to maintain that lifestyle, and before you know it you're not a human being anymore.
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My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.
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Aubrey obviously plays Karen's, Sarah Michelle Gellar's, younger sister. And, um, she's sort of always been the underdog in the family and somebody who is not as ambitious or driven as her sister, as Karen's character, so she's sort of always felt like she's had to follow in her sister's footsteps.
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I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.
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If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have
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And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.
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If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.
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IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
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Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.
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My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.
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For most women, whether you're an actress or whatever you do, there is this pressure in society and within the world to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act a certain way, say certain things, and be this idea as opposed to being a person.
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People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.
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I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
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