Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Rachel Brosnahan

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.

Rachel Elizabeth Brosnahan is an American actress. She stars as aspiring stand-up comedian Miriam "Midge" Maisel in the Amazon Prime Video period comedy series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017–present), for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2018 and two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy in 2018 and 2019. She also had a recurring role in the Netflix political thriller series House of Cards (2013–2015) as Rachel Posner, for which she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination, and played a lead role in the WGN drama series Manhattan (2014–2015).

American - Actress | Born: April 2, 1990

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I find theater terrifying. There are no do-overs, you know? It's all happening live. You need to be in it 100 percent at any given moment, and the audience is right there. I'm really intimidated by theater, but it is my first true love. I love theater. I love that anxiety.

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I think where I feel the most vulnerable and anxious and sometimes insecure is when it comes to my work. It's arguably the thing that I care about the most.

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There's an audience that is paid to laugh at my jokes. I'm playing a character while I'm doing stand-up. Real stand-ups, man, they're playing themselves. I'd be far too terrified.

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I would like to try to never do the same thing twice, and fail huge sometimes.

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I really love period pieces.

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Early on, you don't have the luxury of a lot of choices. Sometimes you're forced to do things that will advance your career and not necessarily things that fulfill you artistically, but I've been fortunate to do a lot of both.

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I can't walk in heels at all.

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I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

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Issa Rae is a hero of mine, and I'm going to try not to completely creep her out. I love 'Insecure.'

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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.

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I can't take anything seriously.

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Drama was all I ever wanted to do. There was no plan B!

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Wrestling is like improv. You have to feel and sense what the other person is going to do next and respond faster than they do.

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Trying my hand at standup was exciting to me.

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Comedy was not necessarily the thing that I thought it would be, but I was searching for something that felt scary to me.

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I think you always carry a little bit of your character you've ever played with you. And I hope I'm able to carry some of Mrs. Maisel with me.

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History is told through the eyes of men about men.

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I think one of the things I enjoy about acting is the transformation, and part of that is certainly the physical transformation. If people are confused forever, wondering where they have seen me before, that feels like exactly where I want to live. It feels like something's working.

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I can't claim to ever have done stand-up.

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I grew up on the North Shore of Chicago, and I don't think I had a friend that wasn't Jewish. I spent more time in a temple than any other house of worship. I've been to about 150 bar and bat mitzvahs.

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I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.

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I grew up happily immersed in Jewish culture and community.

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It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

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I wanted to absorb the comedy world by osmosis. But I really loved kind of throwing myself in head first.

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I know so many extraordinary women who I never get to see represented on screen, and that's shameful.

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I was under the false impression that I could sing in high school, so I did a lot of musical stuff. I can't sing or dance, so that was entertaining for everyone.

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Period pieces hold up a mirror to the world that we live in.

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I think home has become my friends and family, wherever they are.

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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.

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Home is where your rump rests.

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I'm used to one-dimensional female friendships. It's become a kind of trope.

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If you play a doctor on TV, you probably shouldn't try performing surgery.

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I can finally say I'm a professional actress.

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I'm somebody who hasn't really felt fairly confident in my own life.

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It's a strange thing that we're actors, and we're always playing a character, and then suddenly we're at a place like Cannes, and we're getting photographed as ourselves, and you're like, 'What do you do?'

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Top 37 Quotes & Sayings by Rachel Brosnahan

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