“It's fun to branch out a bit. I feel like I've held a lot of tricks up...” — Jennifer Carpenter Quote

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.

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.

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 would love to branch out a little bit and... do a Judd Apatow type of movie. It just looks like it's so much fun.

Though I thoroughly enjoyed playing crime branch officer Gautam Savant, it drained a lot out of me, too. It shook my faith in myself, as I explored my hidden side and wondered if I was just acting or using the character as an excuse to vent my mean side.

I was raised in New Jersey - Long Branch.

If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.

President Trump's leadership has reignited American space competitiveness and I'm proud to support his efforts to establish a U.S. Space Command - and to create a sixth branch of the military known as the Space Force.