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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. "

Melissa McCarthy

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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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" I love a woman who's solid in her shoes. "

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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 there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it. "

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" I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong. "

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" I want to be healthy. "

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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 didn't wear jeans for, like, a decade of my life. "

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" I did nothing but dramas for seven years in New York. I didn't really start anything comedic until I moved out to L.A. and found The Groundlings. "

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" I lived on a farm in Illinois, and we didn't have a lot of money. But I lived vicariously through magazines. I was obsessed with Jean Paul Gaultier. I still have the scrapbooks, and I've kept all my designs and sketches. "

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" I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game. "

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" I should be learning another language and working out more, but I'm just always saying, 'Ah, I could get hit by a bus tomorrow.' "

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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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" I've always had mostly gay male friends. "

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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 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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" Nothing's more charming than someone who doesn't take herself too seriously. "

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" People don't stop at a size 12. I feel like there's a big thing missing where you can't dress to your mood above a certain number. "

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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 don't really know why I'm not thinner than I am. "

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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 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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" 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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" If somebody's doing something, and you're laughing, and at the same time you're so embarrassed for them, it's my absolute kind of favorite type of laugh. "

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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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" 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'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 did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise. "

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

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