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" I want pockets in my dresses. I put pockets in everything! I want pockets inside my pockets. "
Melissa McCarthy
Dresses
Everything
Put
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" I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people. "
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" Some days, I want to be prim and proper, and others, I want to be in a band. "
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Proper
Others
Days
" 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.' "
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Hair
Like
Reflection
" 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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Weird
You
" I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking! "
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House
Blocks
Wood
" 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. "
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Me
Love
" 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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Singing
Laugh
Husband
" I love a woman who's solid in her shoes. "
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Solid
Her
I Love
" 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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Think
Fun
Boring
" I would love to be directed by more women. "
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Women
Would
Love
" When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's, like, my favorite thing on earth. "
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Earth
Like
Saying
" When I go shopping, most of the time I'm disappointed. "
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Shopping
Most
Go
" Jason Statham is funny, I never knew that. "
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Jason
Never
Knew
" 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. "
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Thought
Head
Look
" 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.' "
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Story
Men
Better
" 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. "
Melissa McCarthy
Off
Good
Feel Good
" 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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Living
Think
Comedy
" 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. "
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Special
Try
Train
" 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. "
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End
Enough
Laugh
" I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls. "
Melissa McCarthy
Energy
Little Girls
Negative
" I could eat healthier; I could drink less. "
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Eat
Could
Less
" 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. "
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People
Women
Think
" 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. "
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People
Funny
Great
" 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
" 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?' "
Melissa McCarthy
God
People
Treat
" 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.' "
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Know
School
Said
" 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
" 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. "
Melissa McCarthy
People
Know
Interesting
" 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. "
Melissa McCarthy
Experience
You
Me
" I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done. "
Melissa McCarthy
Then
Done
Believe