Quotes from Piper Perabo

So it was just funny to read a script that was just similar to what had been going on in my life.

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 got lost a lot, and I was a really bad waitress... I got lost on the subway.

In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

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

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

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

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.

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.

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.

It's like a blind turn on a highway: You can't see what's coming, so you don't really know how to prepare.

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.

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky.

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.

So I started to learn guitar right away.

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 had seen Shawn Levy's movie just before, Just Married. And I think when I met him too, he's very smart and together and he's got it together.

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.

Well, love is confusing at all ages, but especially when you're 17.

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.

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