Quotes by 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• In this business, you never say no to anything.
• You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.
• I find there's almost no place to put an award that one's quite comfortable with.
• 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.
• Nature chooses who will be transgender; individuals don't choose this.
• We have the tendency to condemn what we don't understand.
• Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.