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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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Amber Tamblyn
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: May 14
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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.
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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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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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I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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.
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I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.
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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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IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.
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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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I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
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My advice is to make acting your second career choice
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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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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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