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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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Amber Tamblyn
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: May 14
Actress
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Poet
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Santa Monica
California
Amber Rose Tamblyn
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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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If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.
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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
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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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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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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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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
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I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
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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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Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.
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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 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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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 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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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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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've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach
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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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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 have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it
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