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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

When every heart is filled with peace and every mind is searching for peace, how can there be war?

People sometimes get so lost in their own beliefs that they fail to gain truth and understanding. You can't get the whole picture just by relying on your own perception. Never be afraid of the truth.

An excellent weapon and luck had been on my side. To be successful, the best fighter pilot needs both.

They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that.

As the economy grows, so will the demand for energy.

I'm not racist, I've got a black president.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action - the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

I think I can safely conclude that there is not a lot to be said for playing chess while on Valium.