175 Quotes by Melissa McCarthy

I will embarrass my kids to their core. I will threaten to show up in hot pants and a tube top. Their dad will drive me. And he'll let me and my friend Lisa get pretty drunk in the backseat, and we will come into that party and just rip it up.

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'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 think there are people who really love the comfort of their small town, and there are people who feel stuck by it.

Jason Statham is funny, I never knew 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 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.

I was only a bridesmaid for my sister, and it was very calm and small, so I didn't have any tragedy.

I was never sullen. I was a terrible punk - I was still so chatty.