It was intimidating to play a deaf character. There's a whole culture in the deaf community and I really wanted to know a lot about that and honor it in the work.

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.

Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

I feel a sense of responsibility," said Jordan. "And where is this feeling located? In your pants, perhaps?

You nine daughters of Jupiter, sisters of one heart.

I'll eat the hell out of a bagel. That's what I do

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

Your hair is all funky in the morning.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

The Bible is the cornerstone of liberty ... students perusal of the sacred volume will make us better citizens.