Taryn Manning
If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a characterCollection: Stupid
As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.Collection: Acting
That's why I'm an actress, to do something completely opposite from myselfCollection: Opposites
Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mixCollection: Cds
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."Collection: Men
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Mom
Normally I wouldn't spoil anything because I love surprises - I don't even shake my presents at Christmas.Collection: Surprise
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Stars
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.Collection: Weekend
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.Collection: Jobs
I like to contribute. Even in my bands, I can't really just be the singer.Collection: Band
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.Collection: Party
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.Collection: Hurt
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.Collection: Girl
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.Collection: Wise
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.Collection: Art
I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.Collection: Buddhist
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.Collection: Girl
As soon as you put an actor to a person who is real, that person comes to life through another person.Collection: Real
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.Collection: Stereotype
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.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: Decision