"As Hollywood knows, I'm full of ideas."

“I wouldn’t trust the best fifteen minutes I ever lived to get me into heaven.”

“When you're a young actor, there's this pressure to rush. But I hope to be doing this into my sixties and seventies, so I'd prefer to take my time.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.”

“I would be nowhere without martial arts. It's a passion.”

“Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it?”

“The people who know the sort of personality or persona that I give across more on Twitter just realize that I'm just being messy and I'm just snatching wigs.”

Source : Source: www.nydailynews.com

“If you don't take no chances, then you're not a performer. Performers always take chances. You go see a singer, they'll hit the high note. They'll hit that note, they're not afraid, they're gonna exaggerate the fact and make me enjoy it, make me say, 'Wow, I wish I could do that!”

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

Source : "Melissa McCarthy's Emotional Interview: Finding Love, Coping with Critics and Becoming a Star – Her Way". Interview with Kate Coyne, people.com. June 25, 2014.