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A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.
Amber Tamblyn
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.
Amber Tamblyn
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.
Amber Tamblyn
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.
Amber Tamblyn
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.
Amber Tamblyn
And I'm influenced by female writers more interested in their own deconstructions and who are really clever and hilarious. Like Virginia Woolf or Katherine Mansfield or Corrina Bain.
Amber Tamblyn
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.
Amber Tamblyn
Being a performer myself I can understand that, but I think that poetry, for me, might be less about the performance and more about the words.
Amber Tamblyn
But I didn't even see God in the show as being very spiritual, I see him or her, it, as being something that is just relevant and very important in her life.
Amber Tamblyn
But if you want to get into Hollywood and all its drama, be prepared for a struggle.
Amber Tamblyn
But it's hard for me because I'm coming at poetry from a very old-fashioned era that's more diverse politically.
Amber Tamblyn
Developmental disabilities affect millions of people either directly or indirectly. I wanted to get involved because getting treatment can be really expensive. To know there might be help for your child or someone you love but not be able to do anything about it simply because of money is terrible.
Amber Tamblyn
Doing this movie was like training for the Olympics. There were a lot of injuries on the set, even though we went through this blessing ceremony to ensure that wouldn't happen. It didn’t work … I had lots of bruises and scrapes, but the scariest thing that happened, actually, was when I ate blowfish. I swear to God, it made my lips numb and I gave myself a panic attack. I was sitting with a bunch of people and I was, like, sweating and started to take my jacket off and stuff. I was, like, freaking out because it made me really hot and then my lips got numb.
Amber Tamblyn
For every day of school you miss you have to do three hours of school on the set, in addition to actually working.
Amber Tamblyn
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.
Amber Tamblyn
I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God.
Amber Tamblyn
I don't know what the destructive thing is all about. The destructive craze, self-destruction, it's very bizarre to me. But I have certainly been pressured to losing weight, especially when I was doing the TV show Joan Of Arcadia. I'd have to lose three to five kilos and it really p**sed me off. People want you to look like everybody else. I just want to look like me.
Amber Tamblyn
I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
Amber Tamblyn
I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it.
Amber Tamblyn
I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.
Amber Tamblyn
I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality.
Amber Tamblyn
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.
Amber Tamblyn
I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.
Amber Tamblyn
I think at the end of the day this movie is respecting what we as women go through as we grow up. The experiences, what we deal with, other women, things about images, things that we deal with as women.
Amber Tamblyn
I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.
Amber Tamblyn
I think I might be known for my sarcasm and my humor. And yet I always come off as the sweet girl in things. Even in interviews.
Amber Tamblyn
I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like that.
Amber Tamblyn
I think that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.
Amber Tamblyn
I think writing is an art form, and acting. It all stems from the same general place from the human mind and the body. I think I always sort of took to it, and really enjoyed it. My second family is up here in San Francisco, so I was raised around the poets of the Beat generation in San Francisco, so it's sort of second nature to me
Amber Tamblyn
I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.
Amber Tamblyn
I write poetry that 17-year-olds can understand. I know a lot about teenage girls, and sexuality, and what they do know, and what they don't know ... so the thing for me is wondering, will parents think, "Oh, Amber Tamblyn from Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, has written a poetry book, let's get it for the kids." But they're going to get something different, because there's something different here. And luckily for me, I didn't publish the worst of my language, which is good. I didn't want it to become distracting. "Role model" is a weird word. I'll be a role model for as long as people want to follow my role.
Amber Tamblyn
I’d live there tomorrow if I could. I love everything about it — the culture, the food, the people. And you see eight-year-old girls on the subway at 8pm on their own! I would never do that in New York.
Amber Tamblyn
I'd rather be a on a good show that only runs two years than on a dumb show that's a hit for like eight years, which is usually the case these days.
Amber Tamblyn
If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.
Amber Tamblyn
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.
Amber Tamblyn
I'm glad that my life is private. I would give up acting in a second if I thought my life was going to be open target for anybody. That scares the crap out of me.
Amber Tamblyn
I'm influenced by female writers more interested in their own deconstructions and who are really clever and hilarious. Like Virginia Woolf or Katherine Mansfield or Corrina Bain.
Amber Tamblyn
It's interesting - there's a lot of my poetry that I don't think I could ever publish because it's almost too personal.
Amber Tamblyn
It's rare lately that you come across good scripts, with the writers strike and other things. There aren't a lot of really great roles for younger women, or women in general. When I started reading this, I held in the back of my mind the thought that it would be unique somehow.
Amber Tamblyn
It's really hard for teenagers to get into anything that's not strictly image- or material-based.
Amber Tamblyn
I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach.
Amber Tamblyn
Joan was really neurotic, almost bipolar, swinging back and forth between emotions - almost like a Lucille Ball.
Amber Tamblyn
My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
Amber Tamblyn
My dad has his hands full managing me. He and Joan Hyler are like my co-managers. They're my incredible support team - Team Tamblyn.
Amber Tamblyn
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.
Amber Tamblyn
My favorite childhood book would have to be The Little Prince. I have never read such an appropriately dark book for kids. I still find myself smiling at ideas like being able to see the sun some 50-odd times from your own tiny planet.
Amber Tamblyn
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.
Amber Tamblyn
My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
Amber Tamblyn
Never sell yourself short. I mean that in the biggest, most huge way that you can possibly think of that term. Don't sell yourself to men, don't sell yourself short to your image, don't sell yourself short to magazines that portray an image that you feel is a standard for how you should look. The most interesting people throughout history have been trendsetters; always, in every field, in every aspect, they've always gone their own path, their own way. They've always walked alone.
Amber Tamblyn
One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.
Amber Tamblyn
Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.
Amber Tamblyn
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.
Amber Tamblyn
People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
Amber Tamblyn
People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.
Amber Tamblyn
Social anxieties and image in general. I've been really fascinated recently by watching the shows on MTV, like Sweet 16 and Laguna Beach. I'm fascinated by this whole new generation of cultureless and deprived white kids in suburbia, and I feel like they have no connection to the outside world, and we're totally glorifying this image. We're glorifying that all white kids are dumb and cultureless. That's what MTV does and that's what a lot of magazines do, and you look at the role models for that as well, and that also plays a major part in it.
Amber Tamblyn
The idea that someone like Britney Spears is a role model for teenage girls is kind of sad and horrifying. Britney is the epitome of a nonartist. She has nothing to offer but her T&A.
Amber Tamblyn
There are two different types of people who want to enter the business: those who want to act because they recognize their natural talent, or believe they can learn the art, and then there are those who desire fame. If you think you have what it takes, then get your butt out there, and go for it!
Amber Tamblyn
There's a writer named Jack Hirschman who is really incredible. Some other ones have been Nathanael West, Pablo Neruda, and Dylan Thomas.
Amber Tamblyn
This will be the fourth time I've seen this film. I'm very proud of it and I think it's a great movie for women of any age. And almost every single man I've talked to has admitted to crying.
Amber Tamblyn
To me, if there is a divine being, I don't understand why our country has had to go through everything that it's gone through in the last four years.
Amber Tamblyn
Well, I can give cab drivers directions so that's pretty exciting. But Sarah acted as my translator, literally, because the director, Takashi Shimizu, only speaks Japanese. It was a bit of a challenge! Sarah is much better at speaking Japanese than she admits.
Amber Tamblyn
When I found out we'd be doing the sequel, I was at dinner with America. We both got a message on our phones at the same time. We all try to see each other as much as we can, just to catch up and give each other advice.
Amber Tamblyn
When I was 12 years old, I was on General Hospital, and I would mess around a lot on set. One day, during an emotional scene, the guy who played my father on the show strongly told me to 'sit down and be quite.' It was so traumatic at the time.
Amber Tamblyn
When you think about films for young women, they're only entertaining if the girls are hating each other or fighting over a guy.
Amber Tamblyn
Wrinkles, soft faces, older faces are signs of wisdom, which is the greatest sign of beauty.
Amber Tamblyn
Yes. We both like nice shoes. [Laughs] We've also led similar careers. We both started out young on soap operas, we both made shows about supernatural things, and we both have a sarcastic sense of humour. We pick up each other's sentences, that's probably the best way to describe it. We were like that from the first day of shooting. I felt like I was reuniting with a friend, you just pick up where you left off — except we never really picked up anywhere.
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