Mercedes Ruehl Quotes

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

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Individual, Transgender

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• Society historically has a difficult time with the concept of something new and foreign that shakes up our comfortable views, especially if it involves the very volatile question of sexual identity.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Views, Identity, Difficult Times

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• 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.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Hard Work, Character, Dwelling

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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

  Character, Voice, Sound

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• The first theatre I ever found was in the backyard of a new suburban community in the foothills of the Poconos. My dad was a young FBI agent at his first or second posting - we're all from New York. He was posted in Scranton, Pennsylvania and he put the family in a brand new red-brick apartment. It was in a C-shape and behind it was a small hill that led up to the woods. There was a white-washed brick wall that was a perfect theatre! There were windows and all the ladies behind the windows in their apartments. I would go out there after lunch every day and sing opera.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  New York, Dad, Wall

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• 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.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Book, Two, Gone

  "Girl's Power Wows Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. June 19, 2006.

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• 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.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  People, Choices, Brain

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

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Foundation, Roles, Building

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I've always had facility with the German accent.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Accents, Facility

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of a child being abused or mistreated, my response went from being appalled to being physically revolted.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Mother, Children, Example

  "Girl's Power Wows Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. June 19, 2006.

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

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Awards, Comfortable

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Christine Ehren, www.playbill.com. May 21, 2002.

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• 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.

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Couple, Fall, Play

  "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Christine Ehren, www.playbill.com. May 21, 2002.

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

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Names, Firsts, Deals

  "Girl's Power Wows Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. June 19, 2006.

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

  Mercedes Ruehl

  Tendencies

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