Zitat des Tages von Melissa McCarthy:
I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.
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've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.
When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.
I didn't wear jeans for, like, a decade of my life.
I'd rather watch a character be good at something and be challenged - there's more to play in that.
I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs.
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'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?'
I love to watch someone who just goes for it and isn't worried about whether it's silly or awkward or unflattering.
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.
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.'
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.
I'm not a crazy germophobe; I have kids, and that ship has sailed.
Ben and I live like hermits. The night of a concert, we'll be like, 'Do you think we can get tickets?' And everybody is like, 'No, why didn't you do this earlier?'
I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise.
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.'
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.
I just don't lose weight easily.
The average size of a woman is 14.
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 don't sleep, but I've got two little kids that don't sleep, either.
I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.
I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.
Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.
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 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.
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.
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.
Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.
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.
I have blocks of wood all over my house; I spend all of my day knocking!
My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.
I'm not a great pregnant woman.
I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.
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.'