“A mirror reflects what you see, and a black mirror shows the dark side of it.”
― Madeline Brewer
“Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.”
― Madeline Brewer
“Step outside your comfort zone because that’s the only way you’re going to grow.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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!”
― Madeline Brewer
“I really love my hometown. I carry that with me.”
― Madeline Brewer
“Netflix gives a lot of creative and artistic freedom to its actors and to its production team and whatnot.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“You can’t turn individual human beings into baby-making machines.”
― Madeline Brewer
“Let your voice be heard. Don’t stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I did my first play when I was 7.”
― Madeline Brewer
“Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I loved working on ‘Grimm.’ The entire cast and crew were wonderful and welcoming.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I really enjoyed entering a new world and getting to know a new character – the world of ‘Grimm’ and becoming a Wesen.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I miss my family, and I miss the New Jersey beaches. They have beaches here in L.A., but they aren’t the same.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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?”
― Madeline Brewer
“When I went to New York, I was exposed to things I definitely wasn’t exposed to in South Jersey and Pitman.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“The women of Gilead have so little power.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I am 150 percent the first person to say it: I am a feminist through and through.”
― Madeline Brewer
“Every time I’ve talked about the Republic of Gilead, I always say, ‘The still-fictional Republic of Gilead.’”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I’m not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“My mom loves me a lot, and I think if I was taken from her, she would have lost her mind.”
― Madeline Brewer
“Clothes should always feel personal.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I’d never wear something that’s too generic.”
― Madeline Brewer
“It’s excruciating to be away from your child.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“When I told my mom I was auditioning for ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ she lost it. She was so excited.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I have an all-black Mahalo ukulele – it’s like my baby. It has brought me so much peace and comfort.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“’The Handmaid’s Tale’ will blow people away.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I’m not tough.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I’m a horror fan in general.”
― Madeline Brewer
“’Black Mirror’ was amazing.”
― Madeline Brewer
“’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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“’Hemlock’ is so intelligently written and brilliantly put together. Every detail in the show is there for a reason, and it fascinates me.”
― Madeline Brewer
“When it comes to fashion, I never wear makeup and always stick to black clothing.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“Whether people agree with you or not, take an active role in what happens in your life.”
― Madeline Brewer
“We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I’m, like, a tiny musical theater fairy.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I was really an actor before I knew I could sing. And I just put the two together and went to musical theater school. But acting is a huge passion of mine, so it doesn’t matter which medium as long as I have the opportunity to grow and to learn from a piece of work and work with good people, and on a very good-quality project.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, which is a tiny 2-square-mile town near Philadelphia. Everyone knows each other there.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I listen to everything: The Pixies, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers.”
― Madeline Brewer
“Filming with Laura Prepon, Taylor Schilling, Natasha Lyonne, it just blew my mind.”
― Madeline Brewer
“After ‘Orange’ wrapped and my character wrapped, I felt like I went through a bit of a mourning period.”
― Madeline Brewer
“With any character, you have to put part of yourself into it because we are the soul that brings that character to life.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I get my love of acting from my dad.”
― Madeline Brewer
“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.”
― Madeline Brewer
“I don’t need a man to tell me he loves me; I don’t need this industry to tell me it loves. I love myself.”
― Madeline Brewer
“A lot of the best of what’s come from working on ‘Orange Is the New Black’ is working with the Women’s Prison Association and kind of getting to see firsthand what they do for incarcerated women.”
― Madeline Brewer
“There’s absolutely no part of what I do that my dad doesn’t have the utmost pride in. It doesn’t matter what the job is – he’s… supportive. Same with my mother.”
― Madeline Brewer
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