Mercedes Ruehl

Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.

— Mercedes Ruehl

I'll be with The Goat until the fall. Then I've been given three plays to look at and there have been a…

— Mercedes Ruehl

In this business, you never say no to anything.

— Mercedes Ruehl

We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.

— Mercedes Ruehl

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

— Mercedes Ruehl

I learned a lot more about transgender people. It's not a choice, but a physiological condition that has to do with the…

— Mercedes Ruehl

The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My…

— Mercedes Ruehl

But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw…

— Mercedes Ruehl

I've always had facility with the German accent.

— Mercedes Ruehl

Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if…

— Mercedes Ruehl

I find that once you find the sound and voice of this character you're playing, everything else follows. It comes right out…

— Mercedes Ruehl

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.

— Mercedes Ruehl

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps…

— Mercedes Ruehl

Also, I had read a book called She's Not There: A Life in Two Genders, written by a professor who had gone…

— Mercedes Ruehl

Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.

— Mercedes Ruehl

I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.

— Mercedes Ruehl