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

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.

I've always wanted to be able to hold my breath for like, ever, and swim in the water like a fish.

Homophobias just one form of abjection and wherever you have a marker of deviance skin colour gender gender identity disability you get the same mechanisms of prejudice.

We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

In March 2005, I was appointed to the board of the Santa Barbara metro transit district. I was incredibly optimistic about how public transportation can be the solution to help people live in the city and not need a car.

If you cant explain something in a few words try fewer.

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

One of the most productive times in my early writing life was while I had a full-time job as a word processor in a law firm and also worked part-time at night, often working until 11:00 P.M.

No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.

Genetic engineering is a result of science advancement, so I don't think that in itself is bad. If used wisely, genetics can be beneficial, but they can be abused, too.

Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful you are.

Alas few socialists are either benevolent enough to work hard at these occupations out of benevolence or self-interested enough to work hard at them for money.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.