Taryn Manning Quotations

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I would say our sound is soul pop.

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

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

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

It's actually harder to write a fun song.

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

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.

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

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

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.

People call me a human jukebox because I know so many songs. Music's always been so huge in my life, just putting the radio on and learning songs.

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.

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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."

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

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

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

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

I feel the craziest people are sometimes the most intelligent.

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.

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 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 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.

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'm more like an animalistic rock chick.

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

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."

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.

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

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.

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

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.

The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive

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.