Top 136 Quotes & Sayings by Melissa McCarthy - Page 2

I think there's so many points of view that you want to make sure your stories are being told from men and women... you get all of the different backgrounds. You don't want every story being told from the same point of view. So just for better storytelling, I'm like, 'Yes, please, bring some more ladies on.'

I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.

I love to watch someone who just goes for it and isn't worried about whether it's silly or awkward or unflattering.

I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.

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.

When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's, like, my favorite thing on earth.

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?'

I've watched women being hideously unattractive, personality-wise and physically, all the time. But these women never end up on screen.

I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.

When I go shopping, most of the time I'm disappointed.

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.

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.

I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs.

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.'

We have some of the most rock-solid, lovely friends in the world.

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.

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.

I want pockets in my dresses. I put pockets in everything! I want pockets inside my pockets.

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.

I love a house project.

I love a woman who's solid in her shoes.

There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.

I have experience dressing me as a 6, a 12, and more. And when you go above a size 12, you don't lose your love of fashion.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.

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.'

I don't sleep, but I've got two little kids that don't sleep, either.

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.

I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.

Jason Statham is funny, I never knew that.

I love the juxtaposition of a sweet little blouse with a motocross look.

I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.

The average size of a woman is 14.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I would love to be directed by more women.

Strangers shouldn't be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profit.

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.

I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that.

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.

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.

Some days, I want to be prim and proper, and others, I want to be in a band.

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.'

There’s a greatness in not caring what people think

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.'

I don't associate with people who blame the world for their problems. You are your problem. You are also your solution.

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 felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs.

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 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.