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" Some days, I want to be prim and proper, and others, I want to be in a band. "

Melissa McCarthy

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" My parents are kind and accepting. Because so many of my friends were gay, it was just an accepted thing in my house. I was very lucky. "

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" I see teenagers or people who are 21 and think, 'I was an idiot at that age.' I was running around New York like a crazy woman. Thank God I only had three and a half cents to my name. I was too immature to handle success then. "

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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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" 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 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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" I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up. "

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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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" 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 was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy. "

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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. "

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" I'm really happy in my life. "

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

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" I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done. "

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" I would love to be directed by more women. "

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" At some point in the past, it was decided that women in comedy are never supposed to be shown in an unflattering light. But in comedy, you need all of your tools to be funny. "

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

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" 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 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 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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" 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 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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" It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff. "

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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 was always Missy, never Melissa. I went to college, and I thought it was so much more interesting to go by a different name, and then it just kind of stuck. "

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" When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone. "

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