I find that once you find the sound and voice of this character you're playing, everything else follows. It comes right out of the fingertips eventually - the physicality, the gestures, the walk - for me. — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this. — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a couple of… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name. — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the size of… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
I find that once you find the sound and voice of this character you're playing, everything else follows. It comes right out of the… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good. — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place.… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone through transgender… — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily. — Mercedes Ruehl Copy Share Image
