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" I'd rather watch a character be good at something and be challenged - there's more to play in that. "

Melissa McCarthy

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" 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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" I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. "

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" 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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" I want to make each piece of clothing work 15 different ways. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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" Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throws herself into a dip that often, so I don't think he thought she was really going to do it. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking! "

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" When I went to college, I did clothing and textiles. It really wasn't until I moved to New York, my second night in, I did stand-up. I took a wild left turn, and instead of going back and finishing school at FIT, I started doing stand-up and acting. "

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" 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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" 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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" 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. "

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