Taryn Manning Quotes

In my first few years of being in New York, I had a major identity crisis because I'd never stayed in one place for so long.

I remember moving to California and feeling so strange because I'd always seen myself moving to New York.

I moved to New York first and was really apprehensive about moving to L.A., but I really, really like it.

It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

I was born in Costa Rica and we moved to America where it was a whole new world for me.

I was born in L.A., but raised in New York.

I was raised in New York and then moved to Miami in my teenage years, returning to New York later on.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

When I left Barcelona, staying in Spain was an important factor in my decision to join Madrid. I did not have to change country or learn a new language, adopt a different sort of lifestyle, and so on.

When I moved to the United States, I first went to California to be the chef at Campton Place. As much as I loved California, I really missed the seasons. So when I moved to New York, I had that again.

I've completely embraced life in Florida after growing up in the Midwest. This is home for me.

When I came to America, I had some surprises at first, but I could soon adjust.

When you go to a new country, you don't have the same facilities as you had in the one before. You adapt very quickly to the circumstances.

I'm from New Jersey. But I went to school in Los Angeles and all across the country. So, I can totally connect with missing home.

A man always has to leave his homeland, go to another time zone, another culture, to get a different recognition - to be accepted as someone who's following a different path, who's moving into a different mode.

I spent a lot of my childhood moving around, so I was constantly adjusting to different environments and finding a new identity.

I think that foreignness is always with you. Indeed, I find California more foreign to me the longer I live here. In thirty years of living here on and off, it hasn't lost anything of foreignness. If anything, it has gained.

I moved to New York when I was almost 21 and I've lived there for almost eight years, now I have a totally different relationship to L.A. There's like all this space and it's so beautiful seeing all these different landscapes and all my friends are here so now I really like it so much but my adjustment period was a little like "What a strange town".

I left the Midwest thinking I didn't fit in. But when I got to New York, I realized how truly Midwestern I was.

I went to Paris in 1989 when the Americans didn't quite know what to do with me at first. Now, all those years later, it's kind of the same story. Not the same scenario, but kind of the same story.

It's good to be back in New York. I have lived here ten years. I'm originally from Indiana. I know what most of you are thinking: Indiana: Mafia. But the fact of the matter is where I grew up there was something very similar to the Mafia: 4-H.

New Yorkers are born all over the country, and then they come to New York City and it hits them: Oh, that’s who I am.

What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.

When it finally came my way and doors opened up for me to do it and to be on stage, it felt like a natural thing to try out. And it just so happened to speak to me. I really couldn't do what I needed to do in the most fulfilling way in Hayward, Calif., or in the Bay Area, that it required me to go off to NYU.

I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.