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 t…

- Mercedes Ruehl

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

- 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 abuse…

- Mercedes Ruehl

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

- Mercedes Ruehl

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

- 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 involv…

- Mercedes Ruehl

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

- 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 wi…

- Mercedes Ruehl

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

- Mercedes Ruehl