Melissa McCarthy

I wanted to be a drag queen so badly. I'll bet I still own more wigs than any drag queen - I love me a wig.

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?'

When I read a character that I really, really love, I know immediately what they look like. It's like I want to 100 percent become that person.

I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.

I'm certainly not shy, but I like playing it because I love those characters that are incredibly confident but really still a mess.

I have experience dressing me as a 6, a 12, and more. And when you go above a size 12, you don't lose your love of fashion.

Everybody's a train wreck in their own very special way. But there's something wildly freeing about someone who's unapologetic, who knows they're a wreck and doesn't even try to hide it, just bulldozes through life.

I didn't wear jeans for, like, a decade of my life.

I'm really happy in my life.

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.

Funny is funny, and it can come in 8 billion different shades and flavors, so I think it's silly to kind of limit it.

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.