25 Quotes by Mercedes Ruehl

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

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 surgery, but it took this person well into his thirties to come to terms with the absolute necessity of having to do it.

I’ve always had facility with the German accent.

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

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

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 films have come over the desk. I will probably not do either one of them.

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.