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I'm not tough.
Madeline Brewer
After 'Orange' wrapped and my character wrapped, I felt like I went through a bit of a mourning period.
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 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.
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.
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.
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, like, a tiny musical theater fairy.
Filming with Laura Prepon, Taylor Schilling, Natasha Lyonne, it just blew my mind.
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.
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.
It's excruciating to be away from your child.
Netflix gives a lot of creative and artistic freedom to its actors and to its production team and whatnot.
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.
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.
I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.
Let your voice be heard. Don't stand idly by and let things happen to you. Question everything; be informed.
Whether people agree with you or not, take an active role in what happens in your life.
When I went to New York, I was exposed to things I definitely wasn't exposed to in South Jersey and Pitman.
Clothes should always feel personal.
I listen to everything: The Pixies, The Beatles, The Avett Brothers.
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.
I miss my family, and I miss the New Jersey beaches. They have beaches here in L.A., but they aren't the same.
Always be kind, especially in times when it seems like everyone is giving up on each other. Love harder.
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.
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.
'Hemlock' is so intelligently written and brilliantly put together. Every detail in the show is there for a reason, and it fascinates me.
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.
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 want people to be awake. I want them to be aware.
'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 really enjoyed entering a new world and getting to know a new character - the world of 'Grimm' and becoming a Wesen.
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 grew up doing musical theater. I went to a school for musical theater, so that was always what I wanted to do growing up.
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'd never wear something that's too generic.
I'm a horror fan in general.
We have a beautiful right in this country, which is freedom of speech.
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.
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 grew up in Pitman, New Jersey, which is a tiny 2-square-mile town near Philadelphia. Everyone knows each other there.
Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.
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!
You can't turn individual human beings into baby-making machines.
When I told my mom I was auditioning for 'The Handmaid's Tale', she lost it. She was so excited.
Step outside your comfort zone because that's the only way you're going to grow.
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 studied Shakespeare at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City, and 'Orange' was my first audition ever for TV or film.
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 really love my hometown. I carry that with me.
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