Melissa McCarthy
I believe it matters how you treat people. I believe in Heaven. I don't believe that this is it, and then we're done. I have a lovely relationship with God, although when I've lost someone or I've seen a sick child, I've had conversations with Him in which I've had to ask, 'How can that be right?'Collection: God
There was a three-year chunk as a teen where I should have been tranquilized and put in a cage.Collection: Teen
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.Collection: Wedding
I'd rather watch a character be good at something and be challenged - there's more to play in that.
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 love a woman who's solid in her shoes.
I love the juxtaposition of a sweet little blouse with a motocross look.
I want pockets in my dresses. I put pockets in everything! I want pockets inside my pockets.
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 think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.
I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise.
More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.
When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's, like, my favorite thing on earth.
I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs.
I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that.
I don't sleep, but I've got two little kids that don't sleep, either.
I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are a lot of funny women in my life. I never understand those movies where there's eight funny guys and two women who don't have any opinion or humour.
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.
I've watched women being hideously unattractive, personality-wise and physically, all the time. But these women never end up on screen.
I feel intensely guilty for working... You have to be able to provide for your kids. But I feel like it's a weird modern phenomenon that you always feel guilty for it.
Strangers shouldn't be allowed to take a picture of your child and sell it for profit.
We have some of the most rock-solid, lovely friends in the world.
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 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.
I love to watch someone who just goes for it and isn't worried about whether it's silly or awkward or unflattering.
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?'
Ben and I have absolutely nothing to do with the Hollywood that's all actors and the Sunset Strip. We crave talking to people who do different things and are passionate about it.
When I go shopping, most of the time I'm disappointed.
We're a weird bunch at 'Mike & Molly.' We go to work, and we're crazy about each other, and we love where we go to work.
I think everything that any actor does, I would assume, is shaped by how and where they grew up.
In terms of the characters I think are really fun to play, a lot of times it's someone in my head saying 'I know that woman.'
I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.
I would love to be directed by more women.
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.'
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.
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 obsessed with 'Call The Midwife.'
I'm a huge 'Ghostbusters' fan. I've seen it, like, 10,000 times, so I couldn't be more looking forward to a reboot.
I'm like a three-and-a-half, four-hour-a-night sleeper. It's not enough to function.
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.
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.
The average size of a woman is 14.
I love a house project.