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" 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. "
Melissa McCarthy
Think
Funny
Silly
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" 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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" You look much better when you're comfy. "
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" I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up. "
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" 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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" 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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" I would love to be directed by more women. "
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" 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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" 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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" Strangers shouldn't be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profit. "
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Strangers
" Jason Statham is funny, I never knew that. "
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" 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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" 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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Back
I Can
Work
" 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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Feel
Weird
You
" 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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Woman
" I just don't lose weight easily. "
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Just
Weight
Easily
" 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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Being
End
Never
" 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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You
Why
" 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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" 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. "
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Nothing
New York
Start
" When I go shopping, most of the time I'm disappointed. "
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Shopping
Most
Go
" Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought. "
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Thought
Wish
Sometimes
" I want to be healthy. "
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Want
Healthy
" 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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Talking
Nothing
People
" I don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am. "
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" 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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Husband
" Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics. "
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" I didn't wear jeans for, like, a decade of my life. "
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" 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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Shoes
" 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. "
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