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. – Piper Perabo
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. – Piper Perabo
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. – Piper Perabo
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. – Piper Perabo
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. – Piper Perabo
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. – Piper Perabo
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. – Piper Perabo
I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way. – Piper Perabo
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. – Piper Perabo
I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere. – Piper Perabo
I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side. – Piper Perabo
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. – Piper Perabo
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. – Piper Perabo
It was so much fun to play, that I’ve now had a taste for it and want to play more villains now. – Piper Perabo
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. – Piper Perabo
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. – Piper Perabo
