121 Quotes by Amber Tamblyn

"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."

"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."

"When you think about films for young women, they're only entertaining if the girls are hating each other or fighting over a guy."

"I think I might be known for my sarcasm and my humor. And yet I always come off as the sweet girl in things. Even in interviews."

"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.""

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."