Words matter. These are the best Jennifer Carpenter Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.
At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.
I need to make sure that I’m taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.
It’s fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I’ve held a lot of tricks up my sleeve for a lot of years, and ‘Ex-Girlfriends’ is a good way to show another side of me.
I usually spend the hiatus of ‘Dexter’ in New York in a way to balance things.
My sister is a chiropractor and she says I have an unusually flexible lower back, but I don’t do yoga, and I don’t feel like I’m very bendy.
I believe in possibility, but I’m not sure I believe in demons.
Well, I made an announcement to my family at 8 that I wanted to be an actor, and I focused like a laser beam on it. I never had a fallback plan.
It’s sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal.
Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I’m buying a new book to read, I’ll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I’ll think that one is meant to go home with me. I’ll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I’ll always go one behind.
One of the things I’ve started doing lately is tracking my dreams. I feel like there’s a lot of information there and you can really bring those emotions to the situations that may feel mundane or familiar. That gives them new life and gives you a new relationship with it – if that makes any sort of sense.
Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race.
I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.
It’s always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy.
I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don’t think gigs like ‘Dexter’ come along too often.
At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I’m trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I’m trying to tackle. We’ll just sort of see.
My laundry list of wants in a partner is basically kindness. I want someone who is kind, and that’s kind of where it begins and ends. I’m open to being surprised.
You know what, I’m happy to say that everything outside of ‘Dexter’ feels like a vacation, and I don’t mean to say anything negative about the show. It’s just a different kind of work. Emotionally it’s taxing and complicated, and that’s a great thing.
I love that there’s a beginning, middle and end to a film and you can craft what the whole journey is going to look like.
I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes – knock on wood – I have never broken a bone.
