Top 60 Amber Tamblyn Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “It’s you versus you.” Meaning, you’re the only thing standing in your own way.”

— Amber Tamblyn

2. “The mind is the master and the body is the servant.”

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3. “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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4. “Putting our minds to something has never been the problem. The problem has been: Who decides whose mind is worthy?”

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5. “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.”

— Amber Tamblyn

6. “Have you ever heard wolves howl in a place where wolves do not reside?”

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7. “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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8. “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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9. “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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10. “Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.”

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11. “Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.”

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12. “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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13. “I think any time you have too much education in one certain field, that can sometimes play against you.”

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14. “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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15. “If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.”

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16. “I cast out the crime of me; my casualty. Silence, you must leave. Sadness, go. Surrender, shame. Cruelty, quiet now.”

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17. “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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18. “People in real life cuss God out when they’re angry. That’s all real.”

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19. “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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20. “I live in a country built on celebritizing its citizens’ grief and amplifying stories of violence and assault for political gain, click counts, or television ratings. Let me be emphatically clear: They. Don’t. Care. About. Us. People who live through sexual assault are a crash on the side of the road, and the American media is nothing more than cars slowing down just long enough to take a peek.”

— Amber Tamblyn

21. “I have tons of jewelry. I like to wear a lot of it.”

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22. “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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23. “A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.”

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24. “My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.”

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25. “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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26. “We publicized it. We capitalized on it. We exploited it for ratings or whatever, for stories, with our memes and GIFs and tweeting and all that. We jump on the train. We show their pictures on live TV. We make clever hashtags. We find ways to, like, absolve ourselves from responsibility or say we’ve helped out with a retweet or something. We’ve helped because we’ve mentioned an injustice in passing to our neighbor and we both got to shake our heads.”

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27. “Sexual assault is the single least-reported violent crime. And when it is reported, the victims are blamed and shamed. Or not believed. Or silenced. Punished. Or their attackers are never prosecuted at all.”

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28. “I’ve learned how to make a meal out of pain, how to brand my sorrow.”

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29. “I think I relate to all the characters in one way or another. I’m a chameleon like that.”

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30. “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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31. “The part of acting business is 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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32. “I haven’t had a lot of celebrities around me growing up.”

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33. “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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34. “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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35. “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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36. “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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37. “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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38. “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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39. “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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40. “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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41. “I don’t think it’s always good to read lots of poetry.”

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42. “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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43. “People who live through sexual assault are a crash on the side of the road, and the American media is nothing more than cars slowing down just long enough to take a peek.”

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44. “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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45. “Sip Someone else’s logic then spit it out.”

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46. “People who have seen me read usually come up afterwards and invite me to be a part of something.”

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47. “I’ve been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach.”

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48. “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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49. “It’s not your fault. But healing your own pain does belong to you now.”

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50. “Tell me how you prove coercion? How you prove the difference between being hit on and hunted? How you prove your arms were held down? Your body was touched? Your life was threatened if you ever told anyone? For people who have suffered violent sexual crimes, proof – the very act of proving – is more than just a burden. It is boundless bearing. An eternity of futility.”

— Amber Tamblyn