Jennifer Carpenter Quotes

When I started acting, it was really the way for me to be able to communicate.

I'm always looking for roles to challenge me and ones which I'll enjoy playing.

What you learn from studying acting is that you have to have the courage to just make strong choices.

I want to do primarily film and theater; I always want to do a play because it feeds my soul. It's like an exercise on stage.

The way I choose parts is I look at the scripts... I choose a part by whether or not it challenges me.

I don't want to play everything. So I'll seek out roles that I'll say, 'This is edgy. This is fun. This is wicked. This suits me.'

I don't go for glamour roles.

I know what I love about acting - and it's the creative process.

Acting is a very important thing for me, and I love doing it. But when I'm acting, I spend 14 hours a day and months a time being someone else. When I'm singing, I just get to be me.

Acting is a really strange thing to do; it's very strange.

I'm very instinctive when I choose my roles, and usually, the number one thing has to be the director.

As an actor, I draw from myself.

I believe an actor should be shameless.

If you do a scene the right way, you can go home at the end of the day and really feel like you accomplished something.

For me, acting is doing.

I'd also like to do a play. I've never done theater, and constantly changing and refining a performance is something I'd like to do, even though it may sound like work to some people - and it probably is work.

I always used to say, as a director, that I could make anybody good in a movie if you found the right part. It all comes down to casting.

To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.

Acting is the business of truth, so that we can see ourselves reflected back and learn.

It's a surprisingly sacrificial job being an actor.

Acting truly is a love of mine.

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

I don't really ever think in terms of what type of person I'd love to play. I usually just read stuff and can tell. It's always fun to get to do things that stretch you and that you don't get to do a lot, but you never know until you see it.

Acting to me is always reacting.

Acting is reacting, and it's always easier to react when someone is doing a good job.