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" 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
Flexible
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" 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
Dreams
Life
Relationship
" 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
Great
Comedy
Teachers
" 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
Ideas
Win
Work
" 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
Television
Like
Never
" 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. "
Jennifer Carpenter
Feel
Good
Me
" 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
End
Beginning
Love
" 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
Broken
Feel
Wood
" 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
Work
Great
Happy
" I believe in possibility, but I'm not sure I believe in demons. "
Jennifer Carpenter
Believe
I Believe In
I Believe
" 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
Comedy
Know
Laugh
" It's sacred for an actor to keep their personal life personal. "
Jennifer Carpenter
Life
Sacred
Actor
" 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. "
Jennifer Carpenter
Want
Partner
Someone
" 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
Run
Book
Bible
" In school I was always being cast as the clown. And then I did 'The Exorcism of Emily Rose,' 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
Clown
People
Rose
" I usually spend the hiatus of 'Dexter' in New York in a way to balance things. "
Jennifer Carpenter
Balance
New
New York
" I have learned that keeping my personal life outside of work is the easier, richer way to work. "
Jennifer Carpenter
Personal
Work
Outside
" 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
Plan
Actor
Never
" I need to make sure that I'm taking roles that I feel like I can communicate through. "
Jennifer Carpenter
Feel
Through
Sure
" I went to school. I went to Juilliard. You spend 13 hours a day on voice and speech. Now I realize why. "
Jennifer Carpenter
Speech
Day
Realize
" It's always been a dream of mine to be in a Woody Allen comedy. "
Jennifer Carpenter
Dream
Been
Mine
" 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
Trying
Information
Find
" 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
Age
Trying
Spirit
" Practice being in the moment when you are running, whether you are on your own or in the race. "
Jennifer Carpenter
Your
Own
Moment