Jennifer Carpenter Quotations

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 went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why.

I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things.

I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.

I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work.