Taryn Manning Quotes
"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
(Related: Women, Experience, Gentleman, News, Writing)
"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
(Related: Home, Thought, Song)
"Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: People, Hope, Teaching)
"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
(Related: Life, Acting, Nothing, Singing)
"The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Positive, Song)
"That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myself."
- Taryn Manning
"Some people might say I need to learn how to relax."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: People, Relax)
"My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Music, Brother, Singing, Writing)
"My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Dad)
"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
(Related: Royalty)
"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
(Related: Music, Brother, Being, Singing, Writing)
"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
(Related: Life, Artist, Autobiography, Fight, Reading, Respect)
"After we wrote The Wreckoning, our record label did listen."
- Taryn Manning
"Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Work)
"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
(Related: Dad, Sister, Brother, Growing up, Pretty, Talk)
"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
(Related: Mom, Brother, Trying, Visit, Words)
"It's actually harder to write a fun song."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Fun, Song)
"I would say our sound is soul pop."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Soul, Sound)
"I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Brother)
"I'm more like an animalistic rock chick."
- Taryn Manning
"I'm not really into movies on dates because you can't chat it up."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Movies)
"If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Character, Being, Silly)
"Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Acting, World)
"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
(Related: Love, People)
"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
(Related: Day, Focus, Now)
"It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Music, World)
"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
(Related: Music, Movies, Actors, Respect)
"Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix."
- Taryn Manning
"I went through the process of auditioning like every other struggling actress in this town."
- 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
(Related: Life, Lies, Now, Play)
"It could be fun to sing with Prince or Michael Jackson. Justin Timberlake has an amazing new sound now."
- Taryn Manning
(Related: Fun, Now, Sound)