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've never been one for sitting on beaches. 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.

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

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

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.