If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on. Amber Tamblyn More Quotes by Amber Tamblyn More Quotes From 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 friends jealous business IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING. Amber Tamblyn right-thing doing-the-right-thing ifs 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 different mean people 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 dark talking thinking When people ask me what I do for a living, I always say, "I get rejected for a living." And that's true. Amber Tamblyn ask-me rejected people 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 guitar mom artist My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad. Amber Tamblyn generations age father 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 role-models roles insane Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. Amber Tamblyn fast-food-nation vegetarian book 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 miracle girl action 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 girl office believe 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 dresses looks ideas My advice is to make acting your second career choice Amber Tamblyn careers choices advice 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 age men thinking People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real. Amber Tamblyn real-life real people 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 like-something accepting kids People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something. Amber Tamblyn come-up invites people My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends. Amber Tamblyn friends parent artist 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 connections religious thinking I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period. Amber Tamblyn poet taken thinking
