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

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Amber Tamblyn
Age: 41
Born: 1983
Born: May 14
Actress
Film Actor
Film Director
Poet
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Writer
Santa Monica
California
Amber Rose Tamblyn
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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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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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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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My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
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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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I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I'm a chameleon like 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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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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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.
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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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I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.
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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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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. This movie addresses that in a very appropriate and sincere way.
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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.
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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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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 have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it
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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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Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.
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