Charisma Carpenter

Actress

35 Quotes

On 'Buffy' I wasn't all that high on the totem pole as far as responsibility and screen time.

There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since.

Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn't do for yourself.

Well, they know that I'm not very anxious to get into one hour again.

My heart is in television, just because it's been so good to me.

I'm a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.

I had been warned not to get on a motorcycle, sort of. I think there is a clause in most general basic contracts to keep yourself in one piece and not alter your looks without telling them first.

Sure, I'd take the responsibility of queen any day.

So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair.

The road Cordelia has travelled, the journey she has taken up to now has been such a joy to play as an actress, because there have been so many chances to do so many different emotions.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result. I think it's kinda the process and I think that if you can find happiness in the process then maybe that's it.

It's been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I've just been holding my breath and praying... I'm basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don't know what the future holds.

I had developed a sitcom with UPN, but it wasn't picked up.

I wrapped that Monday and started on my third episode for Miss Match on Thursday of that same week and we just wrapped yesterday cause it was split over the holiday.

I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.

Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.

When I was first starting out, and I was less established, I was really concerned about being typecast.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

Social media is a double-edged sword. I've gotten in trouble for announcing, too soon, something that the network or the studio wanted to do, and it steals some of the thunder, so to speak.

Most of the time I meet my trainer at the gym and we do a lot of everything: weights circuit with cardio, football drills, sprinting with weights on the treadmill.

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