Top 100 Melissa McCarthy Quotes
#1. I don't sleep, but I've got two little kids that don't sleep, either.
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#2. I have an overactive sense of justice. I want women to realize you don't have to work for the company. You can run the company. I want the scope for them to be endless.
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#3. I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.
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#4. Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.
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#6. I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.
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#8. When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's, like, my favorite thing on earth.
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#9. If somebody's doing something, and you're laughing, and at the same time you're so embarrassed for them, it's my absolute kind of favorite type of laugh.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#12. Ben and I live like hermits. The night of a concert, we'll be like, 'Do you think we can get tickets?' And everybody is like, 'No, why didn't you do this earlier?'
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#13. I've watched women being hideously unattractive, personality-wise and physically, all the time. But these women never end up on screen.
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#14. Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
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#15. 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.
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#16. I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.
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#18. 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.'
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#19. Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world.
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#20. I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.
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#21. I believe it matters how you treat people. I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done. I have a lovely relationship with God, although when I've lost someone or I've seen a sick child, I've had conversations with Him in which I've had to ask, 'How can that be right?'
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#22. I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.
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#23. It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.
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#24. I'm a huge 'Ghostbusters' fan. I've seen it, like, 10,000 times, so I couldn't be more looking forward to a reboot.
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#26. 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?
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#27. My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky.
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#28. I feel intensely guilty for working ... You have to be able to provide for your kids. But I feel like it's a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it.
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#29. Some days, I want to be prim and proper, and others, I want to be in a band.
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#30. I think when you can actually do what you love to do, if it's a little play somewhere, if it's a photo, if it's anything- if you can somehow do what you want and do a really good job at it, I think that's pretty successful.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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.'
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#33. I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.
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#34. 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.'
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#35. I wore white kabuki makeup, had blue-black hair. At one point, I shaved an inch and a half around my hairline and continued the white makeup up so it made my head look slightly deformed. I thought it was hilarious.
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#36. When I went to college, I did clothing and textiles. It really wasn't until I moved to New York, my second night in, I did stand-up. I took a wild left turn, and instead of going back and finishing school at FIT, I started doing stand-up and acting.
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#37. The letters I really love are from young actresses who were worried they had to fit a certain look. They say I've opened it up. And I don't just mean plus-size girls. You can push things now. With all the great performances in 'Bridesmaids', it changed how people see funny women.
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#39. 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.
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#40. Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that's all actors and the Sunset Strip. We crave talking to people who do different things and are passionate about it.
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#41. More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.
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#43. I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.
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#45. People don't stop at a size 12. I feel like there's a big thing missing where you can't dress to your mood above a certain number.
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#46. 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.'
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#47. Funny is funny, and it can come in 8 billion different shades and flavors, so I think it's silly to kind of limit it.
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#48. I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.
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#49. I lived on a farm in Illinois, and we didn't have a lot of money. But I lived vicariously through magazines. I was obsessed with Jean Paul Gaultier. I still have the scrapbooks, and I've kept all my designs and sketches.
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#51. I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise.
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#52. The goal was to work enough to pay my bills and stop going through the couch looking for change. Going way beyond that isn't something I really factored in.
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#53. I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then.
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#54. 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.
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#55. I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.
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#56. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs.
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#57. I'm very boring. But I'm a bit obsessed with women that are so incredibly solid in their shoes that they don't care what other people think of them. I just think there's something so interesting about that kind of confidence.
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#58. Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.
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#59. Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.
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#60. I love to watch someone who just goes for it and isn't worried about whether it's silly or awkward or unflattering.
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#61. I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'
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#62. You can't just play crazy. It makes you push yourself to stay in the realm of reality. And when you do that, it's a lot funnier. That's my favorite, when you think it's a real strange person and not just someone being wacky.
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#63. One of the best parts of a woman's body is that curve, and I go a little bit higher on all of my things to show off the best part of the hourglass.
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#64. I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels.
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#65. I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.
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#66. 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. So I think you need both, frankly.
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#68. Do I sometimes hope I wake up in the morning and people are like, 'What's wrong with her? She looks emaciated.' Of course I would love that. I'm such a clothes whore, I would love the opportunity to be a hanger. But I think I'm more confident than I've ever felt in my life.
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#71. In a lot of comedies, they kind of take all the problems away from the women. They give her great clothes, great hair; she almost always owns an artisanal shop, like a cheese shop in Manhattan.
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#72. 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.
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#74. I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.
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#75. I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.
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#77. Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.
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#78. We're a weird bunch at 'Mike & Molly.' We go to work, and we're crazy about each other, and we love where we go to work.
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#79. I was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck.
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#80. I love the juxtaposition of a sweet little blouse with a motocross look.
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#81. When I was 22, I met with some janky manager, and she told me, 'You're never going to work at this weight.' I think I was a size 6 at the time. There is just this weird thing about how we perceive women in this country. I would love to be a part of breaking that down.
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#82. 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 was an idiot ... It's a decade of tears.
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#83. 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
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#84. I just figure if it has my name on it, and I want to make people feel good about wearing it, I can't pass it off.
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#85. At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny.
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#86. 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.
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#88. I think if anyone tells you the odds are slim, just keep walking. Just do whatever the hell you want to do, because they don't know what they're talking about. When you love something, and you work really really hard at it, you can do it.
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#89. I have caught my reflection and thought, 'Oof. That girl is struggling. That girl is tired.' I've had mornings where I'm like, 'Oh God, I have weird hair.'
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#90. Strangers shouldn't be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profit.
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#91. I want pockets in my dresses. I put pockets in everything! I want pockets inside my pockets.
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#92. I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that.
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#94. There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.
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#95. I loved the playfulness of fashion. I think maybe that's why I became an actress. You put on one outfit and feel one way, and another one will make you feel another way. Clothes are a wonderful tool.
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#96. In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'
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#97. I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
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#99. I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.
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#100. I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.
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