Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Madeline Brewer
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Last updated on September 18, 2024.
When I first read the scenes I got to audition, I just could tell there was obviously something there. The writing speaks for itself, but also it's just the fact that 'The Handmaid's Tale' is such an amazing story. I had never read the book before I auditioned.
We want to make legislation; we want to put laws on women's uteruses and whether or not they can protect themselves from pregnancy or whatever, but we don't want to protect you once you're pregnant.
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.
You can't turn individual human beings into baby-making machines.
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.
Step outside your comfort zone because that's the only way you're going to grow.
I'd never wear something that's too generic.
When you're on set, you're constantly surrounded by people - talking to people, being touched by people. So I like to just spend time with myself.
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.
'The Handmaid's Tale' will blow people away.
I grew up doing musical theater. I went to a school for musical theater, so that was always what I wanted to do growing up.
I'm definitely a homebody, so when I have an emotional day on set, I have to go home, take a bath, and go to bed.
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.
'The Handmaid's Tale' breaks my heart. It's a show based on the book written in the '80s by Margaret Atwood - who is a spectacular talent. That book is a work of art.
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.
I am 150 percent the first person to say it: I am a feminist through and through.
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.
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.
When I went to New York, I was exposed to things I definitely wasn't exposed to in South Jersey and Pitman.
It's excruciating to be away from your child.
We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.
I miss my family, and I miss the New Jersey beaches. They have beaches here in L.A., but they aren't the same.
Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.
I really enjoyed entering a new world and getting to know a new character - the world of 'Grimm' and becoming a Wesen.
I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.
I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.
The women of Gilead have so little power.
Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.
Let your voice be heard. Don't stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.
Every time I've talked about the Republic of Gilead, I always say, 'The still-fictional Republic of Gilead.'
It was a really interesting thing to explore, the strength it takes for someone to stay when they truly do not want to be on this Earth anymore.
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.
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.
I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.
When it comes to fashion, I never wear makeup and always stick to black clothing.
When I told my mom I was auditioning for 'The Handmaid's Tale,' she lost it. She was so excited.
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.
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.
When I was in Toronto shooting 'Hemlock Grove,' I'd spend a couple of hours in the makeup trailer every day because my character had all these tattoos. I was telling one of the artists how bored I was - I didn't really know anybody - and he said, 'Pick up a ukulele and start playing. They're 30 bucks for a cheap one.' And I did!
I studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and 'Orange' was my first audition ever for TV or film.
Whether people agree with you or not, take an active role in what happens in your life.
'Hemlock' is so intelligently written and brilliantly put together. Every detail in the show is there for a reason, and it fascinates me.
I'm, like, a tiny musical theater fairy.
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.
I loved working on 'Grimm.' The entire cast and crew were wonderful and welcoming.
My mom loves me a lot, and I think if I was taken from her, she would have lost her mind.
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'm realizing that a lot of people don't really care what happens to other people as long as it doesn't affect them.
None of the atrocities in 'The Handmaid's Tale' are pure fiction. Everything Margaret wrote was something that has happened somewhere in the world to human beings.
I'm a horror fan in general.
I have an all-black Mahalo ukulele - it's like my baby. It has brought me so much peace and comfort.
Clothes should always feel personal.
My faith falters at times. But I have a very, very strong faith in work ethic, for lack of a better way of putting it.
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.
A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it.
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?
'Black Mirror' was amazing.
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'm not tough.
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