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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.