I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work. Jennifer Carpenter More Quotes by Jennifer Carpenter More Quotes From Jennifer Carpenter Comedy is like math - you can check your answer because you know you've gotten it right if you get a laugh. It just makes sense to me. I feel like because I've had to keep that tool in my box for so long, I'm ready to show it off a bit. Jennifer Carpenter math laughing long 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. Jennifer Carpenter crafts journey looks It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal. Jennifer Carpenter personal-life sacred actors 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. Jennifer Carpenter jinx hate broken I just want to be with great teachers. If that means I'm in a horror film with good teachers, I'll do another horror film. But I would love to branch out and do more comedy or just more straight dramas. Jennifer Carpenter teacher drama mean 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. Jennifer Carpenter lasers my-family actors I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race. Jennifer Carpenter race running book 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. Jennifer Carpenter new-relationship dream giving 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. Jennifer Carpenter home book thinking It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy. Jennifer Carpenter woody comedy dream If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win. Jennifer Carpenter winning people ideas I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why. Jennifer Carpenter juilliard voice school I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things. Jennifer Carpenter balance new-york way In school, I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), and once people hear you scream, they can't un-hear it. But I don't mean to say that I've been typecast, either. Jennifer Carpenter mean people school 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. Jennifer Carpenter my-sister yoga feels I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through. Jennifer Carpenter communicate roles needs 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. Jennifer Carpenter vacation say-anything mean I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often. Jennifer Carpenter would-be television thinking 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. Jennifer Carpenter couple age trying 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. Jennifer Carpenter pitfalls age trying
