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

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.

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

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

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.

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.