I`m really klutzy. I`m always tripping over stuff. I`m always trying to not walk into the camera. I was shooting a scene in a TV show and I kept sneezing. Glenn Frey of the Eagles was opposite me, and when we were filming, he said, "Can we please stop? Amber needs a Kleenex." That was really embarrassing, and I don`t mind sharing.

[about her role as the lesbian Tara on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer":] "I got letters from girls saying that I changed their lives and I met people who would cry about it, and that had such an impact on me. You don`t realise what an impact television has on people. But when you get letters from young girls saying, `I came out and I have a girlfriend now because of you,` it`s great."

I admit it: I`m a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I`m a closet Amberholic. Please help me!

[On being perceived as "heavy"] I have breasts and hips and I am very happy that they are part of me. I weigh one-hundred eighteen and I am five foot four. If you saw me in real life, you would think I was on the thin side.

I started as a dancer when I was a little kid. I realized I didn`t like dancing as much as being onstage and having people clap for me. That`s how I segued into acting, the shortened version.

Books are what I escaped to when I was a kid, and books...unless they`re just really piss poor, I get swept up in them and I`m gone.

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.

I would love to develop my career on both sides of the camera in the way Woody Allen has done down the years. [Glasgow Evening Times, 22 January 2003].

[on her movie Chance (2002):] "The film was a while in coming. I spent a lot of time in my trailer on "Buffy" because they do so many stunts and CGI effects, so I`d just sit and write. I was tired of playing the love interest roles, but that`s all that`s written for women usually. "Buffy"`s the exception to that, but those kind of characters are few and far between, so I thought I`d better write one for myself." [Irish News, 27 January 2003]

I`m not a very serious person at all.

I think when I cease to go to the bathroom, then I can call myself famous.

If I wasn`t an actress I`d want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.

I actually saw a ghost when I was sitting out on the porch of this beautiful house we were staying at in North Carolina. I was doing some writing, and I look up, and I see this woman in white go by, and I thought, `That`s weird.`

[waxing philosophical about Tara not returning to "Buffy" in Season 7, so that Azura Skye took the part:] "They did approach me about coming back, but because my schedule has been so hectic they were having a hard time working everything out. Then it turned out that the character was going to be bad and I just didn`t want to do that to the fans. Too many people like her and they`ve already been traumatised by Tara getting killed." [January 27, 2003]

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?!

I`ve never purposely gone out to take somebody out. Well, maybe in elementary school I once did try to trip somebody.

I would say if you think you could survive without being an actor - don`t do it. It`s a horrible, painful, wonderful but miserable business.