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" I've always had mostly gay male friends. "
Melissa McCarthy
Mostly
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Had
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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?' "
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" More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier. "
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" 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.' "
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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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" It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff. "
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" 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. "
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" I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise. "
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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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" I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess. "
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" I don't sleep, but I've got two little kids that don't sleep, either. "
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" One of the best parts of a woman's body is that curve, and I go a little bit higher on all of my things to show off the best part of the hourglass. "
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" I want to be healthy. "
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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 refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls. "
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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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