Latest Amber Tamblyn Quotes from Interviews

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• 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."

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  Dark, Thinking, Talking

  "Amber Tamblyn: 'I get rejected for a living'". Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.salon.com. August 30, 2015.

• 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.

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  Zero, Numbers, Acting

  "Amber Tamblyn: 'I get rejected for a living'". Interview with Rachel Matlow, August 30, 2015.

• 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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  Careers, Long, Acting

  Source: www.believermag.com

• 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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  Mean, People, Different

  "Amber Tamblyn: 'I get rejected for a living'". Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.salon.com. August 30, 2015.

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

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  Ifs, Doing The Right Thing, Right Thing

  Source: www.believermag.com

• Part of our business is that you read interviews with these people and they don't really talk candidly about what's going on and the struggle - 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.

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  Struggle, Role Models, Acting

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. Spring 2015.

• 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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  Moving, Fall, Ideas

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. Spring 2015.

• 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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  Growing Up, Mean, Eye

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

• I think it's hard to be taken seriously as a poet, period.

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  Taken, Thinking, Poet

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

• 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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  Ideas, Dresses, Looks

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

• 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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  Kids, Accepting, Like Something

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

• 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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  Role Models, Insane, Roles

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

• 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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  People, Rejected, Ask Me

  Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.believermag.com. 2015.

• 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.

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  Mean, Feminism, Doe

  Source: www.glamour.com

• 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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  Mom, Artist, Guitar

  Source: www.glamour.com