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" Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought. "
Melissa McCarthy
Thought
Wish
Sometimes
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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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" 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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" 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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Queen
" I want to be healthy. "
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Want
Healthy
" 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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Thought
Great
" I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise. "
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" My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body. "
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Almost
Just
" I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls. "
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Energy
Little Girls
Negative
" I could eat healthier; I could drink less. "
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Eat
Could
Less
" 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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Wind
Criticism
Change
" I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. "
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Playing
Been
Boring
" 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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People
Know
Interesting
" I'm obsessed with 'Call The Midwife.' "
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Obsessed
Call
Midwife
" There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage. "
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Should
Chunk
Been
" I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me. "
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Think
Transform
Wigs
" 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
" 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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Know
Look
Character
" I would love to be directed by more women. "
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Women
Would
Love
" I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up. "
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Hot
Party
Drive
" 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'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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Still
Confident
Love
" I love to watch someone who just goes for it and isn't worried about whether it's silly or awkward or unflattering. "
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Silly
Love
Someone
" To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's what football is to some guys. "
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Most
World
" 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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You
Women
" 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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Hair
Grow
Shoes
" I love the juxtaposition of a sweet little blouse with a motocross look. "
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Little
Sweet
Look
" It's funny; as I get older I'm reverting to my roots - I want to plant stuff. "
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Want
Stuff
Roots
" Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics. "
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Bumps
Weird
About
" 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