Top 30 Charisma Carpenter Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Always trust your gut and your intuition will steer you right, every time.”

— Charisma Carpenter

2. “I am a single mom and I’m the breadwinner and I have to work and I have to do these things and that’s just the way it is. I don’t think my son even knows any different.”

— Charisma Carpenter

3. “Sometimes decisions get made and it ends up being God doing for you what you couldn’t do for yourself.”

— Charisma Carpenter

4. “No, I’m a horrible singer, I’m awful.”

— Charisma Carpenter

5. “There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away.”

— Charisma Carpenter

6. “Sure, I’d take the responsibility of queen any day.”

— Charisma Carpenter

7. “Nothing beats a really rough massage. I really hate a man who goes all limp when he’s doing a massage. Who needs a soft massage? Just get in there and rub me hard or don’t bother.”

— Charisma Carpenter

8. “You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can’t take the Vegas out of the girl.”

— Charisma Carpenter

9. “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.”

— Charisma Carpenter

10. “I have insecurities about being a good mom, or balancing my career with motherhood. All of those are very strong, very real obstacles. My motto is just unconsciously, and maybe now consciously because I’m saying it, is sink or swim. I’m a fighter.”

— Charisma Carpenter

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

— Charisma Carpenter

12. “Today my son and I went for a stroll and saw the sea lions and watched the sunset and played ball in the park with our dog.”

— Charisma Carpenter

13. “I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad’s restaurant in San Diego.”

— Charisma Carpenter

14. “I miss THE WALLFLOWERS. Great band. Wrote my first Fan letter to them. No response.”

— Charisma Carpenter

15. “My ex-husband and I, even though we’re not together, we are 100 percent together in raising our kid. We communicate a lot and where I drop the ball and need him to pick it up or vice versa, he’s there.”

— Charisma Carpenter

16. “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.”

— Charisma Carpenter

17. “When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you’ll never get back in shape.”

— Charisma Carpenter

18. “Television is my home. It’s a special breed of person that can do nine months on and three months off, with 22 episodes of one-hour shows. It’s very hard work. It can be a grind. It’s not a grind for me. I relish in that.”

— Charisma Carpenter

19. “I wasn’t willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through.”

— Charisma Carpenter

20. “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.”

— Charisma Carpenter

21. “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.”

— Charisma Carpenter

22. “I can keep my head together in a crisis.”

— Charisma Carpenter

23. “I’m a mixed breed and hope to live longer because of it.”

— Charisma Carpenter

24. “My heart is in television, just because it’s been so good to me.”

— Charisma Carpenter

25. “When I was eight years old, or I may have been younger, my aunt picked me up and threw me in the pool and I didn’t know how to swim. It was like, “Conquer your fear and just get on with it.” It must have made an impact on me.”

— Charisma Carpenter

26. “This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.”

— Charisma Carpenter

27. “I don’t think I’ve ever really pursued telling my story, but I think things come to you at the right time.”

— Charisma Carpenter

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28. “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.”

— Charisma Carpenter

29. “When movie people go over into television, it’s a little bit of a shock. It’s much faster-paced. Everything is really last-minute. You won’t know your schedule for the next episode until the last minute.”

— Charisma Carpenter

30. “So, I’m happy to do that because it’s a wonderful working relationship but I will be going out for pilot season for half hour work and that’s the gamble I’m taking.”

— Charisma Carpenter

31. “I’ve had the joy of working on critically acclaimed shows, but unfortunately, those shows aren’t always in the Golden Globe or Emmy categories, which bums me out because they are really good, quality shows.”

— Charisma Carpenter

32. “I don’t think that they know fully what’s happening with Miss Match so therefore I don’t know how many more if any, if the show’s even gonna keep going.”

— Charisma Carpenter

33. “I don’t mind playing the same character, but if it’s not well done, then I’m not interested.”

— Charisma Carpenter

34. “Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.”

— Charisma Carpenter

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