Top 35 Melissa McCarthy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t associate with people who blame the world for their problems. You are your problem. You are also your solution.”

— Melissa McCarthy

2. “There’s a greatness in not caring what people think.”

— Melissa McCarthy

3. “I want to be healthy.”

— Melissa McCarthy

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

— Melissa McCarthy

5. “I think if anyone tells you the odds are slim, just keep walking. Just do whatever the hell you want to do, because they don’t know what they’re talking about. When you love something, and you work really really hard at it, you can do it.”

— Melissa McCarthy

6. “I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that’s someone who’s in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs.”

— Melissa McCarthy

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

— Melissa McCarthy

8. “You just have to say, ‘It’s pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I’m OK with it. I’ve got other things to think about.’”

— Melissa McCarthy

9. “In terms of threshold, as long as it’s based in reality, you can go pretty far, as long as you buy that it’s really happening.”

— Melissa McCarthy

10. “I’m not a great pregnant woman.”

— Melissa McCarthy

11. “I don’t like to do anything that’s mean spirited just because I don’t find it funny. I’d rather be the jackass than makes fun of somebody else. It just seems too cheap and easy.”

— Melissa McCarthy

12. “I’m really happy in my life.”

— Melissa McCarthy

13. “I just don’t lose weight easily.”

— Melissa McCarthy

14. “I ran right back to work. My back was just destroyed after pregnancy. I almost had to have surgery, until I did Pilates and rebuilt my body.”

— Melissa McCarthy

15. “I am not a princess, I don’t want to be referred to as a princess – I find that super creepy.”

— Melissa McCarthy

16. “I’ve always had mostly gay male friends.”

— Melissa McCarthy

17. “You can’t just play crazy. It makes you push yourself to stay in the realm of reality. And when you do that, it’s a lot funnier. That’s my favorite, when you think it’s a real strange person and not just someone being wacky.”

— Melissa McCarthy

18. “I’m always tinkering with something – suddenly I’ll think I can work with wood, but then I’ll realize I can’t, so I go back to sewing.”

— Melissa McCarthy

19. “Part of being young is you thinking that gaining 6 lbs. Is the end of the world.”

— Melissa McCarthy

20. “Women are complicated and messy and we are certainly not perfect, but we are funny and challenging and kind, and I wouldn’t change a thing.”

— Melissa McCarthy

21. “I think when you can actually do what you love to do, if it’s a little play somewhere, if it’s a photo, if it’s anything- if you can somehow do what you want and do a really good job at it, I think that’s pretty successful.”

— Melissa McCarthy

22. “As a teenager I went all Goth, but I wasn’t mopey enough. I would pretend to be, but I’d end up making people laugh.”

— Melissa McCarthy

23. “I could eat healthier, I could drink less. 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.’”

— Melissa McCarthy

24. “Even when someone gets to looking like she should be so proud of herself, instead she’s like, ‘I could be another three pounds less; I could be a little taller and have bigger lips.’ Where does it end? You just have to say, ‘It’s pretty damn good. I am right here at the moment and I’m OK with it. I’ve got other things to think about.”

— Melissa McCarthy

25. “I’ve been every size in the world. Parts of my 20s, 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?” Now I feel like I have two great kids and the dreamiest husband on the planet, and everything else is just a work in progress.”

— Melissa McCarthy

26. “I think the reason I’m an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.”

— Melissa McCarthy

27. “It’s funny; as I get older I’m reverting to my roots – I want to plant stuff.”

— Melissa McCarthy

28. “I believe in Heaven. I don’t believe that this is it, and then we’re done.”

— Melissa McCarthy

29. “To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it’s what football is to some guys.”

— Melissa McCarthy

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

— Melissa McCarthy

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

— Melissa McCarthy

32. “Sometimes I wish I were just magically a size 6 and I never had to give it a single thought.”

— Melissa McCarthy

33. “I’m a bit obsessed with women that are so incredibly solid in their shoes that they don’t care what other people think of them. I just think there’s something so interesting about that kind of confidence.”

— Melissa McCarthy

34. “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.’”

— Melissa McCarthy

35. “Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics.”

— Melissa McCarthy

36. “I don’t really know why I’m not thinner than I am.”

— Melissa McCarthy

37. “I don’t know any neighborhoods where everyone’s walking around in seven-inch heels and perfect makeup.”

— Melissa McCarthy

38. “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.”

— Melissa McCarthy

39. “Once you start writing a character visually, you’re in trouble.”

— Melissa McCarthy