Melissa McCarthy Quotes
As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn't mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I'd end up making people laugh.
I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.'
Hollywood wants to make women so perfect. Perfect hair. Perfect job. Perfect manners... I know some of the most beautiful women, and they are so weird. That's what makes them funny and captivating.
I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.
I don't associate with people who blame the world for their problems. You are your problem. You are also your solution.
You just have to say, 'It’s pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I’m OK with it. I've got other things to think about.'
Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she's like, 'I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.'
It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction ... Would you ever put that in the headline for a male star?
I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.
I'm always tinkering with something - suddenly I'll think I can work with wood, but then I'll realize I can't, so I go back to sewing.
I could eat healthier, I could drink less. I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'
When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's like my favorite thing on earth.
I don't like to do anything that's mean spirited just because I don't find it funny. I'd rather be the jackass than makes fun of somebody else. It just seems too cheap and easy.
I ran right back to work. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.
In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn’t thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: ‘I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes …
I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'
To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys.
I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.
Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.
I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise it just becomes long and rambling indulgent.
In terms of threshold, as long as it's based in reality, you can go pretty far, as long as you buy that it's really happening.
I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.
Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it.
I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.
I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.'
There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.
Famous doesn't mean anything. Just because people know my face doesn't mean they know us or that it makes us any more interesting or better.
Women are complicated and messy and we are certainly not perfect, but we are funny and challenging and kind, and I wouldn't change a thing