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" More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier. "

Melissa McCarthy

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

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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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" Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble. "

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" I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that. "

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

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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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" When I read a character that I really, really love, I know immediately what they look like. It's like I want to 100 percent become that person. "

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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 just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me. "

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" I didn't really know how to write jokes, so I just told weird, long stories about being tall and beautiful and wealthy in New York. I'd tell them very seriously, but I kind of looked like a drag queen at the time with big wigs and crazy 12-inch platform heels. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig. "

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