Mercedes Ruehl quotes
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“Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.”
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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 RuehlSource : "Girl's Power Wows Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. June 19, 2006.
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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 RuehlSource : "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.”
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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 RuehlSource : "Girl's Power Wows Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Matt Webb Mitovich, www.tvguide.com. June 19, 2006.
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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.”
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“I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.”
-- Mercedes RuehlSource : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Christine Ehren, www.playbill.com. May 21, 2002.
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“We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.”
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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 RuehlSource : "PLAYBILL ON-LINE'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Mercedes Ruehl". Interview with Christine Ehren, www.playbill.com. May 21, 2002.
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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 RuehlSource : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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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 RuehlSource : 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 RuehlSource : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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“Some roles require a building from the foundation up; it really doesn't come to you easily.”
-- Mercedes RuehlSource : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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“I've always had facility with the German accent.”
-- Mercedes RuehlSource : Source: www.broadwayworld.com
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