But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge.

I've never been one for sitting on beaches.

I live not too far from it in New York City.

I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.

There are a lot of people who wait tables. And especially because you can do it at night and you can do your work in the day, she and I had a very similar experience.

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

I can only pay my electric bill for my last two years on my acting.

I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.

She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.

I'm not lost, they just moved my street.

But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge.

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love - it's sort of undeniable.

What I'd really like to do is do a film or two a year and then do theater in New York the rest of the year.

I think that you love who you love, and there are people who you love that people aren't going to understand why, and that sort of doesn't really matter.

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.

That's what I think we're all looking for - an honest love wherever you can find it.

I had just done what she does in the story just about a year earlier - I moved from New Jersey and came to New York and was working at a bar, and you know, trying to make it.

It was so much fun to play, that I've now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.

I mean, its hard to be an actor in the city - trying to make it as an actor - because you waitress all night, you get home really late and you're super tired and your feet hurt.

I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.

I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.

Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that.

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

So I started to learn guitar right away.

I can understand in some sense, having played the character, how unimaginably frustrating it is for people to tell you that you can't love who you love, because you ain't going to change it, and so they have to get out of your way.

There's no changing your mind about whom you love. That's part of the tough thing about being in love "it's sort of undeniable.

Roosevelt's magic lay in one facet of his personality: He knew how to take the risk. No other man in public life I knew could so readily take the challenge of the new.

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

Every single book is a challenge.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

The lopsided attitudes of college professors pose a serious challenge to learning because students are so susceptible to becoming lopsided sheep.

I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

I had a hard time with that hockey. I hadn't grown up skating, so that was my biggest challenge. We worked on it and worked on it. But then when we first shot it, it was so hard for me.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.

I like good stories. Quality products and character are what's important. Even if the script isn't that strong, if I challenge myself with a great character, I'll go for it.

I tend to arrive in the rehearsal process with very strongly developed ideas about what I want to do. But I don't like those ideas to be things that are not subject to change, or subject to development, or subject to challenge.