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.
Melissa McCarthy
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.
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.
I make a mean coconut macaroon.
I refuse to give energy to the negative. I've got a great fella and two great little girls.
When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.
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.'
My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.
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.
I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.
Some days, I want to be prim and proper, and others, I want to be in a band.
I love a woman who's solid in her shoes.
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.
I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs.
I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.
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.
I've watched women being hideously unattractive, personality-wise and physically, all the time. But these women never end up on screen.
The average size of a woman is 14.
I loved the playfulness of fashion. I think maybe that's why I became an actress. You put on one outfit and feel one way, and another one will make you feel another way. Clothes are a wonderful tool.
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.
I want to be healthy.
I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.
I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.
We have some of the most rock-solid, lovely friends in the world.
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.
I feel like I got hit with a lucky stick.
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.
I didn't wear jeans for, like, a decade of my life.
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.
When I go shopping, most of the time I'm disappointed.
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.
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.
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.
When I went to college, I did clothing and textiles. It really wasn't until I moved to New York, my second night in, I did stand-up. I took a wild left turn, and instead of going back and finishing school at FIT, I started doing stand-up and acting.
I just think that wigs and makeup and costumes completely transform me.
Strangers shouldn't be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profit.
I'm obsessed with 'Call The Midwife.'
Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.
I'll do almost anything for a laugh.
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.
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.'
Part of being young is you think gaining 6 lbs. is the end of the world.
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.
I watch HGTV like a maniac, and when it's bad, it's like some crazy college guy watching a football game.
The letters I really love are from young actresses who were worried they had to fit a certain look. They say I've opened it up. And I don't just mean plus-size girls. You can push things now. With all the great performances in 'Bridesmaids', it changed how people see funny women.
I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.
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.
I want pockets in my dresses. I put pockets in everything! I want pockets inside my pockets.
I just don't lose weight easily.
I don't know any neighborhoods where everyone's walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.
