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.
So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.
I went to college in Ohio, at Ohio University, and I graduated two years ago.
I 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.
I got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.
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.
I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.
Nobody got Punk'd and he was still in his season for that show when we were filming. So the kids were very aware that it was filming and that was his show and they were very much on the lookout for that.
Well, usually when I finish one character, I'm looking for a role that's really different.
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.
But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge.
I 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.
Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.
