Taryn Manning Quotes

I'm a working actor, and I want to stay a working actor, and I want everybody happy.

I always made a living as an actor when I came to California. I never had to do anything else.

I don't get bothered about statistics. If somebody had pointed out to me the odds of my being a working actress getting paid for what she does, I probably would have quit early in the game.

I've always been in school plays and performing monologues and taking drama. Now I'm in acting classes. I do it the real way. I want to be a working actor. I would love that. I just like being on a series and having a script, and I want that to be my nine-to-five.

I consider myself a fortunate working actor, but I really work at it all the time. If I have a couple of weeks off, I'm taking class. You never stop. I started when I was 10 years old in Cleveland, and I've never stopped working my butt off.

I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

There's just a big group of actors in London. There are new ones coming in all the time, who are looking for work, and established actors who are interested in working and like to work. To be a working actor in England is a life.

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

I'd like to be a steadily working actor and to do as many things as possible. I'm really enjoying the life.

I got my SAG card doing commercials.

As a young actor, you hear 'no' every single day for years on end.

The percentage of actors employed is pretty small, and if you're lucky enough to have a good run at it, you do have a sense of responsibility.

I refused to describe myself as an actress until 'EastEnders' because, until then, I couldn't support myself without doing other jobs.

I'm a working actor, and that's what I always wanted.

I'm very happy to be a working actor.

I think the reason I got into it is because you get to be someone else. There are, like, two percent of people in the actors' union who actually make money off of it, so I feel very blessed to be here.

The idea of a journeyman actor, people sort of say negatively - "Someone who never made it for real" - [but] I think a journeyman actor is the complete goal.

I hope the perception is that I'm an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

I was born an ordinary actor. I will die an ordinary actor. But I've persisted.

I'm an actor, I'm always looking for work. I was born to do that.

As an actor, it's always been good to be working at all.

I may be a B-movie star, but I work. I'm an actor.

I don't like the word celebrity. If I become a good actress and be in movies where I'm expected to be a good actress, who is recognised, that's different to being what I consider to be a celebrity. My job is an actor and that's what I'm passionate about and adore. It's a privilege to be able to do this job for a living.