Top 44 Madeline Brewer Quotes

I have an all-black Mahalo ukulele – it’s like my baby. It has brought me so much peace and comfort.

I am 150 percent the first person to say it: I am a feminist through and through.

I use Garnier’s micellar water to take off my makeup. I love the Mario Badescu Aloe and Rosewater spray. And I’m one of those people who’s a sucker for a hot towel.

When I told my mom I was auditioning for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ she lost it. She was so excited.

When I went in for the ‘Orange’ audition, I was just doing what my agency told me to do. Truth be told, I wasn’t prepared. I didn’t even know how to prepare. I couldn’t remember my lines.

The women of Gilead have so little power.

‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ will blow people away.

I really enjoyed entering a new world and getting to know a new character – the world of ‘Grimm’ and becoming a Wesen.

I look for roles that are a good story for me as an actress and what I think will grow me as an actress and person. I also just really enjoy working with people who are passionate about what they do.

I did my first play when I was 7.

I’m not tough.

Netflix gives a lot of creative and artistic freedom to its actors and to its production team and whatnot.

I can only speak for myself and what feminism means to me, and that is equality for every human being: equal rights, equal representation, equal pay, etc.

It is one of the most ignorant things you can do to a person, to say they’re nuts or they’re crazy. It diminishes the layers of who they are as a person.

I do think everybody pays their dues in Gilead, whether you’re the most high-up commander or not. Everybody has to face the consequences of their actions.

I had an amazing French teacher in high school – it was the one class that I enjoyed. And I studied opera for 11 years, so I did a lot of singing in French.

You can’t turn individual human beings into baby-making machines.

It’s excruciating to be away from your child.

I hated it at first, because I hate the cold even though I’m from a cold area, but I love Toronto. I think it’s gorgeous. I think it’s an amazing city. Everybody runs here or rides a bike. I’ve had to become more active so I don’t feel left out.

You can never just write off a person as crazy. I think that is the most inhumane thing you can do to someone without physically abusing them.

Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.

There’s so many times when you see into the lives of these women in Gilead, and it’s just unbearable. It’s a fate that’s just, I don’t even know how to say it. I don’t have words.

I grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, which is a tiny 2-square-mile town near Philadelphia. Everyone knows each other there.

When you read a book by its cover, you see one thing, and then you find out so much more about them as a human.

I listen to everything: The Pixies, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers.

I like the exactness of baking. I’m not someone who’s like, ‘I’ll just throw a bunch of stuff together. This is gonna taste delicious.’ I am a rule follower: I really like the measuring. It’s completely tedious, but I love that. It’s calming. And I am a total sweetaholic.

The best thing about my job is meeting people who are able to express their creativity in a way that suits them and gives them purpose.

Whether people agree with you or not, take an active role in what happens in your life.

We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.

When it comes to fashion, I never wear makeup and always stick to black clothing.

I miss my family, and I miss the New Jersey beaches. They have beaches here in L.A., but they aren’t the same.

Every time I’ve talked about the Republic of Gilead, I always say, ‘The still-fictional Republic of Gilead.’

We want to have our beliefs, and we want to enforce them on everyone else, but we don’t want to have to think about everything that comes along with it.

I try to take my emotional pulse more now, to recognize when I need to go scream and cry for 20 minutes and then come back to center. Allowing yourself that time, it’s a gift.

I trained classically for 11 years and then studied musical theater at AMDA New York. My dad is a singer-songwriter, so I followed in his footsteps.

I’m not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.

I’m a horror fan in general.

For some people, makeup is their war paint; that’s putting their best foot forward. Others feel better with no makeup. It’s so personal – who are we to judge?

I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.

After ‘Orange’ wrapped and my character wrapped, I felt like I went through a bit of a mourning period.

That’s one of my favorite things about ‘Hemlock Grove’ is that it’s just unique and really just weird, and that’s really what’s happening with Miranda when she kind of gets thrown into the middle of this vampire-werewolf world.

My mom loves me a lot, and I think if I was taken from her, she would have lost her mind.

Let your voice be heard. Don’t stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.

Fullscreen is doing some really interesting work. They are taking these YouTube stars and people who have made entire careers out of social media and bringing them into an even bigger limelight on a new entrepreneur platform – and that’s fascinating! That’s genius to me.