Mehcad Brooks Quotes

There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me.

Actors have a different kind of existence because they blow up over night into superstars in their early 20s. Let's say you were a superstar in your early 20s and somebody gave you millions of dollars, I mean come on. Let's be honest here, we don't know anything in our 20s.

I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

All success is quite temporary if you don't work hard enough to maintain where you are. Talent can get you somewhere but character keeps you there. You have to build character along the way and know when and know how to take the victories from situations even though they might seem grim.

Actors make a bunch of money and they are superstars and then all of a sudden they are 35 and they are an old man and then you never hear from them again. So they basically live like a king for a decade and then they are done.

I don't pay too much attention to the positive reviews or the negative reviews because if you believe one, you've gotta believe the other.

I am part of the demographic and I love it.

I'm a huge Rachel Maddow fan. There's not a bigger Rachel Maddow fan. I'm a Maddowphile. I'm a definite Maddowphile.

I feel like the human body is what it is, and the more you make yourself comfortable with it, the better off you are. Love your body and embrace that.

I've certainly never helped anybody save the day, in any capacity. If anybody is going to understand making a few mistakes, it's me.

I basically modeled my way through college, doing local runway shows in L.A. that don't pay a lot and a couple of shows in N.Y. and S.F., and I probably made the same as the average 19-year-old waiter; I just worked less and was around beautiful girls, so it was nice.

Time heals everything. Time corrects everything. Time is the solution to every problem, I believe. A lot of things can happen with time. All that has to be there is the intention.

I'm a nerd; I enjoy educating myself and learning things.

Family is everything to me. Family and health are the two most important things to me.

Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.

I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.

I'm a human rights activist and it doesn't make any sense not to treat everybody the exact same way. It just doesn't make any sense, it's counter intuitive, it's inhuman and it has to stop.

I'm doing what I love to do and I'm going to go as far as I allow myself to go and I'm just going to stay positive.