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.

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

Take a daily action to make your dreams a reality.

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.

I feel absolutely sorry for the person who can't genuinely get excited about his or her work.

Labor is the divine law of our existence.

Everything a man writes about himself is instructive.

You should see me during an action film. I look like an abuse victim.

If you create a vision for yourself, and stick with it, you can make amazing things happen in your life.

People see what they want to see.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.