Mehcad Brooks Quotes

I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.

Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.

I let action rise out of character, really.

You cannot force somebody to be a different person.

I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.

Changing your nature is the hardest thing to do. But I discovered that you can be who you choose to be.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.

I'm just looking always for characters that change, because I want to get better, as an actor and as a person.

I like telling stories of imperfect people because most people are imperfect.

I think I'm a pretty open book. We're all a work in progress, and I'm not ashamed to say that I don't have it all together - I don't really think anyone does.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

No life is perfect; we all have our problems and issues, and I believe that it's good to be true to who you are.

We only have problems we really want to have.

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

I always look back at when I didn't have a dream, when I didn't have a spirit. I didn't know what the Olympics was all about. I was just hanging out on the street. I was not humble. I was not a nice person, doing things that were socially unacceptable.

Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.

Well, I think that in every character there are little bits and pieces of yourself.

I couldn't change who I am; I couldn't change the kind of player I am.

I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself.

I don't think evil people or negative people are inherently interesting all the time. People who are good people getting better at being themselves - to me, that's something that's really interesting to watch.

Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone's problems that you don't necessarily actually know anything about.