It’s hard to get a job after that, People think you want more money. - Mercedes Ruehl

I don’t like to go over territory that I’ve explored before. And I’d never played a peasant woman.

And if you can stay open through a long run and not get too rigidly identified with how you're doing certain lines, the process of discovering goes on through the length of the performance of the piece.

I am not scared to death facing it. It will certainly give me a card to play with at the poker game of Hollywood. That can't hurt at all.