Piper Perabo Quotes

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.

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

I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up.

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

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 I started to learn guitar right away.

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.

I invest because I'm really a firm believer in letting the artist make their work, if you choose to work with an artist then you give them the go-ahead.

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

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.

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.

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.

One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you know your dry cleaning lady, you know the guy in your coffee shop - that's your neighborhood and I love that.

To me, a great love story is a great love story, and it doesn't matter what gender is involved,

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

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 was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.

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

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 really like the idea of restaurant life, especially in New York where everyone has small apartments - that restaurant culture where you sit at a table for a long time and the afternoon goes by and you're kind of living there. I like that more than nightlife.

And so when I graduated I moved to New York, and I was waitressing here and auditioning - and I got my first job pretty soon after.

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.

It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

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

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

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.

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

I believe in following your instincts with the people that you like and who you like to be with.

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.