Mercedes Ruehl Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
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If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.
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I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
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My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.
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Most of the time, we keep looking outside and feeling sad about what others have. Those are mere excuses.
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And we shared the story of Korean War veteran Dick Shank, who made it home to that baby boy, and lived out his life - at 84 years old, he was still roller skating - because no war should ever be forgotten and no veteran should ever be overlooked.
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I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.
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A planned life is a dead life.
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When I first started playing golf, I was heavily into softball and basketball.
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I was teased a lot, growing up, because of my skin tone.
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My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me into bed so vigorously that I never felt anything less than comforted, and then afterwards, she would sit on a cane basket box next to my bed and read Hans Christian Andersen to me.
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After joining theatre, I started thinking that acting in films was not half as challenging as theatre.
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One of the things an actor tries to access is immediacy, so that you feel like you're experiencing it for the first time. But when you're playing a character who knows what's going to happen and can't stop himself to reacting although he knows he can't stop himself from reacting, there's a whole separate set of things to consider.
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The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
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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.
