Amber Tamblyn Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends. — Amber Tamblyn

I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously. — Amber Tamblyn

Feminism? The word itself means exactly the same thing to me as the word God does - it's a spirituality that is deeply personal, deeply subjective, and deeply no one else's business. You can identify the word however you want, it's just the non-exploration of it that is unacceptable to me. — Amber Tamblyn

I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you. — Amber Tamblyn

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach. — Amber Tamblyn

People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real. — 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

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. — Amber Tamblyn

My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends. — Amber Tamblyn

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. — 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 have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it. — 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

People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something. — Amber Tamblyn

Sip Someone else's logic then spit it out — 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 think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period. — 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

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

My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman. — 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

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. — Amber Tamblyn

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. — Amber Tamblyn

Just because you grow up in the public eye doesn't mean that you're immune to the same sort of issues and feelings that any other woman would go through. — 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

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

IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING. — 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

When I'm acting, I have zero control, and it's the scariest thing anyone can do in that field because, you know, your face is always the one that's out there in front of the camera, and any number of things can happen to you once you've done your work. It can be edited badly, it can be distributed badly, or it can not be distributed at all. And I've certainly experienced that; every actor has. — 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

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 have never reached certain levels of fame, like Lindsay Lohan did, or even Brittany Murphy. My career has always been this sort of even-keeled, steady existence. I was also raised by poets, and I've been doing poetry as long as I've been acting. — 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

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on. — Amber Tamblyn

I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up. — Amber Tamblyn

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. — Amber Tamblyn

I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding skin. I'm talking about rebirth, ultimately, and how we continue to change as human beings and continue to grow. There's that great Henry Miller quote, "All growth is a leap in the dark." — Amber Tamblyn

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. — Amber Tamblyn

I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry. — Amber Tamblyn

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. — Amber Tamblyn

The part of acting business is the struggle to do what you love and to maintain body image and to maintain this sort of false stature of who you're supposed to be as a role model and also who you are supposed to be to yourself personally and privately. — Amber Tamblyn

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next. — 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

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

My advice is to make acting your second career choice. — 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