Quotes from Madeline Brewer

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

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!

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 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.

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

I really enjoyed entering a new world and getting to know a new character - the world of 'Grimm' and becoming a Wesen.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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