Taryn Manning Quotes

The key to acting has much more to do with listening than with talking.

Because I'm highly empathetic, it's easy for me to put myself in the character's shoes. It's, you know, finding the truth of the moment.

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

Understanding human nature. Perception. That's how I see acting - perception and communication.

More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen.

I think acting has made me very in tune with human behavior and myself as well.

There is a difference between being listened to and being heard.

Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.

Acting doesn't have anything to do with listening to the words. We never really listen, in general conversation, to what the other person is saying. We listen to what they mean. And what they mean is often quite apart from the words. When you see a scene between two actors that goes really well you can be sure they're not listening to each other - they're feeling what the other person is trying to get at. Know what I mean?

Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

You should communicate with your other one. Understanding what they are on about is pretty key.

It's sort of the most important thing for acting, is to listen to the person you're dealing with.

I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.

Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

I have always worked from that place, that if you are going to inhabit someone and get under their eyes, you need to have empathy.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

I never took a photograph. Instead, I became a good listener.

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

All I want to see from an actor is the intensity and accuracy of their listening.

I don't think you learn how to act. You learn how to use your emotions and feelings.