A biography for Melissa McCarthyhasn’t been written yet.
“I think the whole reason I act is because it's much more fun to be somebody else. I'm pretty boring.”
“I think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.”
“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 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 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.”
“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?'”
“I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.”
“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.”
“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.'”
“When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's, like, my favorite thing on earth.”
“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.'”
“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 laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids, who are mooning me and singing me songs.”
“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 did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise.”
“I love the juxtaposition of a sweet little blouse with a motocross look.”
“I love a house project.”
“I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that.”
“I love to watch someone who just goes for it and isn't worried about whether it's silly or awkward or unflattering.”
“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.”