Top 67 Taryn Manning Quotes
#1. 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.
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#2. The reason I love acting is because I feel like acting is all about listening.
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#3. 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.
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#4. 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.
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#5. The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
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#10. I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.
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#11. 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.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#15. 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.
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#16. Pride is the community coming together and showing that love is real.
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#17. 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.
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#18. It was Britney's movie. I liked that movie. It didn't get too much love, but a lot of people really liked it.
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#20. My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music.
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#21. I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town.
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#22. As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.
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#23. I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up.
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#24. After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen.
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#25. If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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#26. I've had ups and downs but always maintained I was a working actor, which is a beautiful thing.
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#27. 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.
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#28. There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting.
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#29. Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.
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#30. 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.
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#31. My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew.
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#32. 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.
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#33. 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.
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#34. 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.
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#35. 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.
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#36. Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.
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#37. It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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#39. 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.
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#40. The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans.
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#41. 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.
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#42. 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.
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#43. I never wanted to stop. I feel like to the day I die I'll play guitar and sing.
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#44. 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.
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#45. Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing.
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#46. My whole thing is I like to hang around winners, I like winning spirits, I have zero tolerance for jealousy.
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#47. Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.
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#48. 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.
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#49. It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now.
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#50. 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.
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#51. 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."
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#52. As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.
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#53. 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.
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#54. 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.
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#55. 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.
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#56. I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.
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#61. Some people might say I need to learn how to relax.
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#62. 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."
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#63. That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself.
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#64. There are likable characters in prison. Sometimes the worst criminals are also some of the most charming people.
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#65. Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
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#66. 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.
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#67. I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.
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