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 don't want to brag, but I'm a pretty good driver.

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

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.

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

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.

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