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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 live not too far from it in New York City.
Piper Perabo
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In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.
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'm not lost, they just moved my street.
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 -
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.
Piper Perabo -
So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.
Piper Perabo
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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 got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.
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 -
I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.
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 -
Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.
Piper Perabo
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So I started to learn guitar right away.
Piper Perabo -
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.
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 -
Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.
Piper Perabo