Melissa McCarthy famous quotes

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.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Song #Husband #Hate

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.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Character #Thinking #Long

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.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Thinking #Odds #Talking

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. Even in line for coffee, you're standing with someone who's trying to be so interesting.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Coffee #Interesting #People

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?
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Stars #Affliction #Males

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.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Pregnancy #Body #Pilates

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

#Different #Want #Needed

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.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Proud #Littles #Lips

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

#People #World #Blame

I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Princess #Creepy #Want

I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Women #Makeup #Perfect

When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Inspiring #Dog #Believe

You push so far past the normal boundaries of what’s O.K. in society. I’m always fully aware of, ‘You can’t do this’… When someone really believes in what they’re saying, but it’s crazy, it’s like my favorite thing on earth… [But] Crazy’s just crazy and there’s nowhere to go. You can have a point of view, it can be very strange, but we have to know your reasoning.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Crazy #Believe #Past

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.'
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Thinking #Moments #Damn Good

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue,
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Boring

I've been every size in the world. Parts of my 20s, 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?" Now I feel like I have two great kids and the dreamiest husband on the planet, and everything else is just a work in progress.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Husband #Kids #Two

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... It was a decade of tears."
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Hair #Tears #Wish

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Thinking #People #Actresses

I just don't lose weight easily.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Weight #Lose Weight

Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Bumps #Bruises #Comedy

I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am.
-- Melissa McCarthy

I want to be healthy.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Healthy #Want

I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Character #Shy #Mess

I'm really happy in my life.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Really Happy

Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Giving #Wish #Size

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. It's like I'm managing to achieve all this success in spite of my affliction... Would you ever put [America's plus-size sweetheart] in the headline for a male star?
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Stars #Powerful #Wind

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.'
-- Melissa McCarthy

#School #Textiles #Costumes

I'm not a great pregnant woman.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Pregnant Women #Pregnant

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Character #Writing #Trouble

Pretty much everyone I know, no matter what size, is trying some system. 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.' Where does it end? 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.'
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Thinking #Trying #Three

Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Loss #Thinking #End Of The World

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.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Teenager #Laughing #People

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.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Beautiful #Jobs #Badass

I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Believe #Heaven #Done

I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Football #Crazy #College

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.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Thinking #Woods #Tinkering

I've always had mostly gay male friends.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Gay #Males

It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Roots #Stuff #Want

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.
-- Melissa McCarthy

#Football #Thinking #Guy