Amber Tamblyn Quotes


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The Quotable Amber Tamblyn
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"Never sell yourself short. I mean that in the biggest, most huge way that you can possibly think of that term. Don't sell yourself to men, don't sell yourself short to your image, don't sell yourself short to magazines that portray an image that you feel is a standard for how you should look. The most interesting people throughout history have been trendsetters; always, in every field, in every aspect, they've always gone their own path, their own way. They've always walked alone."
Amber Tamblyn's Famous Lines
flixster.actor.standard.02.347990463 - flixsterMovie/TV title: The Grudge 2
Character name:Aubrey Davis
Quote(s):"
I don't believe anything anymore."

"My sister is dead... Why? What do you want?"

Karen Davis: "Aubrey, you got to get me out of here. "
Aubrey Davis: "You're scaring me. "

"You won't stop... "
Fun fact: Amber Agreed to star in The Grudge 2 because she wanted to play the lead in a horror.
flixster.actor.standard.02.347990463 - flixsterMovie/TV title: Spiral
Character name: Amber
Quote(s):
Amber: So anyway. Now that I have conquered my current job, what should I do next? I am thinking feminist or astronaut. Probably go with feminist, I'm afraid of heights.
Mason: Ah, what does a feminist do?
Amber: Mostly just bitches about stuff.

Mason: [after being walked home under Amber's umbrella in a torrential downpour] I live here.
Amber: Ah, well, gee Mason.
[pretending to be him]
Amber: Thank you for walking me home. Perhaps you would like to have some coffee or something. Or look at my art.
[after no response]
Amber: Right. Well, I'll see you later.
Mason: Thank you... for the umbrella.
Amber: Oh yeah, of course.
[smiling]
Amber: These things are rare in this town, you know. But if you look really hard you can usually find one. Probably shouldn't get mine wet.
Fun fact: Ambers Dad, Russ Tamblyn appears in Spiral as an extra.
flixster.actor.standard.02.347990463 - flixsterMovie/TV title: The Ring
Character name:
Katie Embry
Quote(s):"Becca, quit being a bitch!"
Fun fact:The collage of “Katie’s” pictures on the cover of her journal is really Amber and her real-life friends.
flixster.actor.standard.02.347990463 - flixsterMovie/TV title: Joan of Arcadia
Character name:
Joan Girardi
Quote(s):"What a coincidence because the dork police called and said they want their leader back. "

"My dad's Italian. To him, a sandwich is like an opera. "

[to God] "Look, it's over, okay? You're just going to have to adjust to that. Call up a friend and bitch about me on the phone if you need to, but you have to find someone else!"
Fun fact:In the writer's draft version of the pilot script, the Girardi family was called the Delaney family.
flixster.actor.standard.02.347990463 - flixsterMovie/TV title:The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 1 & 2
Character name:
Tibby Tomko-Rollins
Quote(s):" Hey, hey, hey. I actually stacked my last shelf at Wallmans, thank you very much. "

"The magic is unsanitary!"

Tibby: I brought something for you... ta da.
Bailey: The Traveling Pants.
Tibby: Yeah, I just got them back, from Lena.
Bailey: The one in Greece.
Tibby: Yeah, she said that we were right all along and that the pants are magic and I don't know the details but I do know Lena and for her to say that means... that it must be true... so I was thinking that maybe you could have them for a while.
Bailey: They don't fit me, remember?
Tibby: [in tears] Yeah, I know, but that doesn't matter... none of it really matters... you have to take them, Bailey... okay, you have to let them help you... please. I know that you're tired, okay, but you can't give up, the Pants will give you a miracle, you have to believe.
Bailey: The Pants have already worked their magic on me. They brought me to you.
Fun fact:According to the director, Hilary Duff was interested in playing the role of Tibby at one point.
flixster.actor.standard.02.347990463 - flixsterMovie/TV title: Normal Adolescent Behavior
Character name: Wendy
Quote(s):"
Don't be average."

Sean: I got spanked for stealing once. It's cruel and it hurt. I'm never spanking my kids.
Wendy: Sometimes you have to. Sometimes they are bad and they have to learn. I never learned. Hit me.

"Seriously when did being a lesbian become cooler than blowing a rock star?"

Sean: What? You don't live in what world? The world of first dates? Of holding hands?
Wendy: No you jackass. Of disposable girlfriends. Of bracelets for blowjobs. Of macking and making out and going down and text messaging some asshole whose gonna come all over my shirt. That world.

"Fine, fine, fine, I'm abnormal and you just spanked the girl next door. "

"Wendy: What kind of girl am I?
Billie: A very bad girl.
Wendy: Seriously... what kind?
Billie: ...and when she was good she was very good and when she was bad she was horrid.
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Amber Tamblyn Quotes
flixster.actor.standard.02.347990463 - flixsterA business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.
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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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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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And one of my other friends could not believe in God if he came down and tapped her on the shoulder. She's a biologist - a student at UCLA - and I don't judge her either, because I really believe that God is a personal opinion, and only that.
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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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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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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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I don't think it's always good to read lots of poetry.
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I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it.
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I haven't had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.
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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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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 any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you. flixster.actor.standard.02.347990463 - flixster
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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.
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I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.
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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 that people are definitely interested in the idea that Joan has conversations with God.
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I tried not to make God this big deal in Joan's life. She treats God like a friend: she's nice to him some days, and other days mean, and then cries when she needs help.
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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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If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.
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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.
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My advice is to make acting your second career choice.
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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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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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My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
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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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Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.
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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.
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People in real life cuss God out when they're angry. That's all real.
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People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.
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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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