Best 51 quotes of Taryn Manning on MyQuotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.

If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character

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.

I grew up in a very musical household. There was music and dance. My great-grandma was a famous tap dancer in the '40s, my mom was a dancer, she met my dad on the road when he was on tour in the '60s. Music is my heart and soul, it's my love.

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.

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 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.

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

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

I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

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'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'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.

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.

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.

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

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The most interesting place I've gone on location was New Orleans

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

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

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

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

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.

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.