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Amber Benson Biography

Amber Nicole Benson (born January 8, 1977) is an American actress, writer, director, and producer. She is best known for her role as Tara Maclay on the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but has also directed, produced and starred in her own films Chance (2002) and Lovers, Liars & Lunatics (2006). She also co-directed the film Drones with fellow Buffy cast member Adam Busch.

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It's all about what you feel on the inside - and I'm feeling like a chocolate chip cookie because I had about ten of them last night!

Chocolate, Feeling, Feelings, Night, Ten

I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.

Base, Grounded, Nice, Self, Thinking

Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.

House, Life, Life Is Short, Love, Short, Sitting

It doesn't matter who you sleep with, it's how you treat other people in this world.

People, Sleep, Treat, World

You were doing a TV show - you don't realise that you're also making social commentary at the same time.

Making, Realise, Social, Tv Shows, Tvs

Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.

Law, Life, Nothing, Regret, Trying

Actually, I love mythology. When I was a kid I was obsessed with myth and I wanted to be a mythologist when I grew up. Then I realized I really just like stories.

Actually, Grew, Kids, Mythology, Obsessed, Stories

For me, I'm constantly writing stuff that is what I'm dealing with on a personal, psychological level. And I think that I bring that to whatever I'm doing, whether it's being an actor or a writer or whatever it is I'm doing. I think you can't help but do that.

Actor, Actors, Constantly, Stuff, Thinking, Writing

I think any good literature, whether it's for children or for adults, will appeal to everybody. As far as children's literature goes, adults should be able to read it and enjoy it as much as a child would.

Adults, Children, Think, Thinking

I'm not a big hijinker. I'm a big sit-in-my-chair-and-read-a-book-er.

Big, Bigs, Book, Chairs, Hijinker

I'm not going to throw up or over-exercise myself into oblivion to look like a model. People tell me, 'You'd work all the time if you just lost twenty pounds. ' What am I going to do, cut off my head?!

Cutting, Exercise, People, Lost, Like

There's no right way to be female or female-identifying. You can love clothes or you cannot love clothes. You can be a stay-at-home mom or you can have a career. You can do both. You can choose to have kids you can choose to not have kids.

Choose, Clothes, Female, Kids, Mom

I think that I have this core group of fans that fell in love with the character I played on Buffy and now they're following me to everything I do. They're very dedicated and loyal. I'm very lucky.

Character, Core, Groups, Loyal, Played, Thinking

Acting is fantastic, but to be able to create a whole world on celluloid is amazing. It's like taking your dreams straight from your head and projecting them onto a screen.

Dream, Acting, World, Head, Amazing, Fantastic

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.

Arc, Book, Immature, Real, Selfish, Times

The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling.

Chess Game, Game, Games, Somebody, Writer, Writing

I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.

Forget, Stuff, Want, Weird

I think specifically because of the character that I played, people are very connected to her. I used to get letters from young gay and lesbian and trans-gendered kids saying, 'I didn't kill myself because of Buffy'.

Buffy, Character, Gay, Kids, Specifically

It was interesting to have humanoid villains that were rooted in our three-dimensional reality. . . or four dimensional reality, I'm not sure which!

Humanoid, Interesting, Reality, Three, Villains

I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon : I want to have my own world.

Grow, Growing Up, Like, Want, World

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