Mehcad Brooks Quotes

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.

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 really believe in being health conscious and trying to eat in a way that makes you feel comfortable. I’ve been working out since I was 17 or 18 years old. It’s just a way of life for me. If I don’t work out, I feel weird. It’s just about what your routine is.

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

I like playing characters that are true to life, and there’s no guarantee that any of us are going to be okay, but we intend to be, and we take the time to try to be. I don’t think it’s any different for a character.

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

I had wanted to be a Calvin Klein model since I was 17. Marky Mark in his Calvin Kleins was the epitome of male sexuality. That was something I worked for.

I think anybody starting any new career needs work.

I didn’t act in college, per se, because I didn’t want an acting degree. I don’t know what you do with that degree. When I was 16, I saw ‘Usual Suspects,’ and I wanted to be a director as well. So I thought I should go to school for directing and producing, something I knew nothing about.

I love ‘Call of Duty;’ I’m a huge fan, but I started off with ‘Medal of Honor’ and I stuck with what I knew. I never got into the online play with people, across the world, across the country.

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.

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.

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

I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, ‘I’d rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don’t care about.’ The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don’t care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere.

I’ve played sports pretty much my whole life, and that teaches you how to work with anyone, whether you like that person or you don’t, and whether you get along with them or you don’t. The circumstances don’t matter. Team work is part of life.

I am part of the demographic and I love it.

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

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.