Taryn Manning Quotes & Sayings

My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music. — Taryn Manning

Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people. — Taryn Manning

As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person. — Taryn Manning

I won't even take jobs where you get paid to sit with a group of friends and party. That's never been my vibe. — Taryn Manning

Everyone thinks I'm some big drug addict and loser because of the parts I play - quite the opposite. I decided to be a winner. — Taryn Manning

Everybody thinks because of my character that I'm this wild girl and I am, I'm an actor, and I have that in me - but I'm actually very calm and mellow. — Taryn Manning

I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices. — Taryn Manning

I'm not a part of any organized practices, but I believe heavily on love and the universe and what you give is what you get. — Taryn Manning

I have played some very kind and loving character. I don't know why I'm so good at playing bad. I really don't. — Taryn Manning

Watching people party is cool, but I don't love watching people get super-duper trashed and annoying. I feel protected behind my booth - away from the madness, but a part of it too. — Taryn Manning

I'm pretty hard on myself. Every now and again I'll go on my IMDB or update my resume and I'm like, "man, I've done a lot of work." — Taryn Manning

I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town. — Taryn Manning

My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy. — Taryn Manning

I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up. — Taryn Manning

It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now. — Taryn Manning

It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage. — Taryn Manning

That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself. — Taryn Manning

There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people. — Taryn Manning

I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing. — Taryn Manning

I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester. — Taryn Manning

I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style-wise. R&B, rock 'n' roll, screamers, pop, good-time songs. — Taryn Manning

A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing before I made my first movie. I just happened to do it as an actor all the while I've been doing music, but never with the intention to become a screaming famous pop star. — Taryn Manning

The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening. — Taryn Manning

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life. — Taryn Manning

As a brother and sister, our tastes were pretty different growing up. He liked a lot of early hip hop. My dad didn't understand it and would try to talk him out of it. — Taryn Manning

Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing. — Taryn Manning

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing. — Taryn Manning

Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix. — Taryn Manning

Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world. — Taryn Manning

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans. — Taryn Manning

I've had ups and downs but always maintained I was a working actor, which is a beautiful thing. — Taryn Manning

Some people might say I need to learn how to relax. — Taryn Manning

Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her. — Taryn Manning

I've had an interesting time adjusting to New York. I'm from California and I'm very much a California girl. I feel lucky to officially say I'm bi-coastal. — Taryn Manning

I write most of my stuff. When I'm rejected in music, it hurts worse than when I don't get a role, because that's someone else's vision. If they don't see me as that part, even if I believe I'm the perfect person for it, that's their vision. The music is my vision. — Taryn Manning

I'm more like an animalistic rock chick. — Taryn Manning

With acting, I get to escape into this character and embody it. With music it's like, "Hey guys, this is my diary, here's all my feelings." — Taryn Manning

My dad died when I was 14. It was very sudden, traumatic, and confusing. I always felt I could have gone down a bad road at that point, but I made a choice to be a winner. — Taryn Manning

I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day. — Taryn Manning

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew. — Taryn Manning

We wanted to write a whole song about partying and then taking Yellow Cabs home. That's the weirdest topic we've ever thought of centering a song around. — Taryn Manning

I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer. — Taryn Manning

Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas. — Taryn Manning

The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive. — Taryn Manning

In my martial arts days. I was taught a lot of discipline that probably rolls over into other parts of my life. You're not supposed to attack back until you're attacked. You never take your skills and abuse them. I knew I could be lethal to someone my size. — Taryn Manning

Pride is the community coming together and showing that love is real. — Taryn Manning

I've made money doing things I love. DJing was a hobby. When I bought my turntables my mom said, "Oh what now, Taryn?" But it became pretty fruitful right away. I come from a very music-oriented family. — Taryn Manning

After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen. — Taryn Manning

There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting. — Taryn Manning

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass. — Taryn Manning

Acting, I love it and I feel that I'm good at it, but the thing that makes me feel most alive is when I'm playing guitar and singing. — Taryn Manning

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool. — Taryn Manning

When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn't easy. — Taryn Manning

I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be. — Taryn Manning

As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough. — Taryn Manning

I DJ very often. I'll probably do it more. I'm not available during the week because of the show but I travel most weekends to DJ. I've been doing it for about six years. — Taryn Manning

It's actually harder to write a fun song. — Taryn Manning

I play, in real life, Kim, who is actually Marshall Mathers ex-wife as of now. She lies and says she is pregnant because she really wants to keep him and he figures her out. — Taryn Manning

It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it. — Taryn Manning

There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears. — Taryn Manning

I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it. — Taryn Manning

I grew up in a mobile home, but it wasn't like white trash - it was a beautiful mobile home park, I had a loving mother, there were kids everywhere, there was a playground in the center, I just grew up in poverty. — Taryn Manning

If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character. — Taryn Manning

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent. — Taryn Manning

I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying. — Taryn Manning

I've seen a lot in my life. My dad was pretty gnarly but I loved him and I wouldn't change it for the world. My mom's a survivor. — Taryn Manning

I would say our sound is soul pop. — Taryn Manning