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(On the movie Coyote Ugly)
Piper: When I first read the script, it hit me like a ton of bricks. A year earlier, I had moved from New Jersey. The same train she takes back and forth from her house is the train I take back and forth from my house. I worked in a bar when I got to New York. It's really autobiographical!
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Piper: People think that I can pour drinks after seeing Coyote Ugly, which is kind of funny. When I go into a bar they always say "You want to get behind the bar?" C'mon, if I was pouring real alcohol in that movie the whole place would have been s**tcanned.
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Piper: A lot of times with comedic actors, they sort of perform for you all the time. And that can get a little exhausting, especially when you're doing a film, because you're together all the time and you kind of want somebody who can come down and have a coffee with in the morning when you get to work.
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Piper: I'm really kind of a lightweight when it comes to drinking. But I'm not one of those pink or blue-Hawaiian-tropical-drink girls. A cold can of Schaefer.
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(when asked about the project she thinks she did not fully achieve success)
Piper: This isn't exactly a project, but I've got to admit when I saw the first TV ad for Coyote Ugly my jaw kind of hit the floor. The marketing of the movie was really sexy. And although the movie is sexy, it's not like it looks in the TV ad. I was home and with my mom when it came on and I was like 'Dear God! What the hell is that!?'.
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(about projects she would like to do)
Piper: I really want to do [Henrik] Ibsen's The Master Builder. It's a good play so if it comes along that would be something I would like to do.
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(about the one thing she would like to change in public perception of yourself - the information available in the Internet regarding her being a cheerleader is incorrect)
Piper: Well clearly that cheerleader thing! I don't know how that got on the Internet.
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(when asked about her most important professional accomplishment)
Piper: Lost and Delirious which was this really small film I did with Lea Pool in Quebec. It's a lesbian love story and it's Lea's first film in English. For me it was the closest I've gotten to the ideal that I began with when I started the film.
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(about what she likes to do with her free time)
Piper: Well, last time between jobs, I drove cross-country with my best friend. I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere. I think that's why I like New York City because you can just put on your backpack and just explore; you never know where you are going to end up. I've never been one for sitting on beaches.
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(about what she wanted for her career, express an interview in 2000)
Piper: 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. Willem Dafoe seems to move between kind of avante-garde theatre and film, and I think eventually that's what I'd like to do.
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(about her similar story to the character Violet Sanford in 'Coyote Ugly')
Piper: 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.
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(about her interest in the character as Violet Sanford in 'Coyote Ugly')
Piper: The day I read the script I went and got a guitar ... because I felt like, this is the movie that I really want to go for next. So I started to learn guitar right away.
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Piper: 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.
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Piper: 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.(on the set for film Cheaper by the Dozen)
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Piper: I've never been one for sitting on beaches.
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Piper: I was also trying to find a movie that would let me play a villain, because I'd only played ingenues.
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Piper: 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.
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Piper: 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.
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Piper: I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.
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Piper: A lot of times with comedic actors, they sort of perform for you all the time. And that can get a little exhausting, especially when you're doing a film, because you're together all the time and you kind of want somebody who can come down and have a coffee with in the morning when you get to work.
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Piper: It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.
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Piper: 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.
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Piper: Any time I'm playing opposite somebody in a love relationship, if I know them it's easier, because I know how much I can trust them.
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Piper: I think an American saying w**ker doesn't have the same weight as when a Brit says it. For some reason 'c**p' was the hardest word. I say it once in the film and it was like a gillion takes. - Piper talking about how she struggled to perfect an English accent for the movie Imagine Me & You.