Mercedes Ruehl Quotes

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

- 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 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

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

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

- Mercedes Ruehl

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

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

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

- Mercedes Ruehl

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

- Mercedes Ruehl

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

- Mercedes Ruehl