Melissa McCarthy

“Jason Statham is funny, I never knew that.”

“You look much better when you're comfy.”

“I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue. I always wonder: Who's her weird friend? I like the oddballs.”

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

“I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.”

“I've watched women being hideously unattractive, personality-wise and physically, all the time. But these women never end up on screen.”

“I wore white kabuki makeup, had blue-black hair. At one point, I shaved an inch and a half around my hairline and continued the white makeup up so it made my head look slightly deformed. I thought it was hilarious.”

“More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.”

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

“When I believe in something, I'm like a dog with a bone.”

“Since grade school, I focused on women's clothing.”

“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.”

“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 could eat healthier; I could drink less.”

“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?'”

“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 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.”

“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.”