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 PeraboI 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 PeraboI 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.
Piper PeraboOne 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.
Piper PeraboShe 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 PeraboI was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.
Piper PeraboI had seen Shawn Levy's movie just before, Just Married. And I think when I met him too, he's very smart and together and he's got it together.
Piper PeraboIt 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.
Piper PeraboI believe in following your instincts with the people that you like and who you like to be with.
Piper PeraboBut 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 PeraboI 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 PeraboI was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.
Piper PeraboI 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.
Piper PeraboI 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 PeraboI 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 PeraboTo me, a great love story is a great love story, and it doesn't matter what gender is involved.
Piper PeraboYou 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 PeraboWhat 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 PeraboI 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.
Piper PeraboWhen you're a very career-oriented woman, sometimes you don't have as much time to go meet all kinds of guys. You're a little bit limited to the guys that work in your office. I think a lot of girls can relate to that problem.
Piper PeraboWell, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.
Piper PeraboI really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.
Piper PeraboThere'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 PeraboAnd 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.
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