Taryn Manning Quotes

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.

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

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."

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

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

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

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.

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.

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."

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.

Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.