25 Quotes by Mercedes Ruehl

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

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

I've always had facility with the German accent.

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.

In some roles you do that very hard work where, at some point into rehearsals, where all of a sudden it snaps into place. You feel like the soul of this character is now dwelling in you.

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

You know, I've seen great actresses who have never had children portray mothers with such passion and skill that you would never know.

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 the hypothalamus part of the brain.

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