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Amber Tamblyn

"My advice is to make acting your second career choice."

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Donna Grant

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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Donna Grant

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

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Donna Grant

"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."

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Donna Grant

"Great acting may be a turn-on, but it won't make me fantasize about the person for a week."

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Donna Grant

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

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Donna Grant

"I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like."

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Donna Grant

"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."

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Donna Grant

"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."

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Donna Grant

"Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing The English Patient is wonderfully draining, but imagine acting in it for six months."

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Amber Tamblyn
"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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Amber Tamblyn
"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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Amber Tamblyn
"A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next."

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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."

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Amber Tamblyn
"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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Amber Tamblyn
"If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on."

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Amber Tamblyn
"My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends."

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Amber Tamblyn
"My advice is to make acting your second career choice."

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Amber Tamblyn
"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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Amber Tamblyn
"I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously."

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