Melissa McCarthy

I just think we tear down women in this country for all these superficial reasons, and women are so great and strong.

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

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.'

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.

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.'

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.

When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's, like, my favorite thing on earth.

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

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.

When I went to college, I did clothing and textiles. It really wasn't until I moved to New York, my second night in, I did stand-up. I took a wild left turn, and instead of going back and finishing school at FIT, I started doing stand-up and acting.

My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.

Once you start writing a character visually, you're in trouble.