Top 136 Quotes & Sayings by Melissa McCarthy
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Last updated on December 22, 2024.
I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.
I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.
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.'
I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.
I'm not a great pregnant woman.
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?'
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 was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.
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.
I didn't wear jeans for, like, a decade of my life.
My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.
I'm obsessed with 'Call The Midwife.'
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.
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.
Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.
Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world.
I'll do almost anything for a laugh.
I want to make each piece of clothing work 15 different ways.
I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed.
I make a mean coconut macaroon.
It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.
I'd rather watch a character be good at something and be challenged - there's more to play in that.
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.
There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.
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.
Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously.
Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
I want to be healthy.
I just don't lose weight easily.
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?'
I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.
I'm really happy in my life.
I feel like I got hit with a lucky stick.
Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.
I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.
I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.
When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.
I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.
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.'
I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.
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.
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.
When I read a character that I really, really love, I know immediately what they look like. It's like I want to 100 percent become that person.
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.
I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.
I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
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.'
I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.' But sure, criticism can sometimes still get to me. Some things are so malicious, they knock the wind out of you.
I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!
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.
I did nothing but dramas for seven years in New York. I didn't really start anything comedic until I moved out to L.A. and found The Groundlings.
I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.
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've always had mostly gay male friends.
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.
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.
You look much better when you're comfy.
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.
Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.
I could eat healthier; I could drink less.
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