Melissa McCarthy Quotes

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the 'Barbie doll' roles.

A lot of the time, the way it's portrayed is that I only see women in a sexual way. But I grew up with just my mum and sister, so I respect women a lot.

Status ought not to be measured by a woman's ability to attract and snare a man..

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

In Hollywood, only a female who's massively damaged is interesting.

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package.

My mom had started to go to work when I was nine or ten, so I was aware of women trying to find their own identities by working. But I was still influenced by men to such an extreme. I wanted to play their games and wanted to compete in their world and be like them.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

You could call me a 'card-carrying feminist,' if there were a card to carry.

Women are always complaining about men's fascination with breasts. But what if men were absolutely indifferent to breasts? What would women do then with these things that serve one function once or twice in a lifetime, and the rest of the time are just in the way?

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

I feel like, in a lot of shows where the woman is in charge, the woman is this ball buster and the guy is sort of weak and spineless. And that's never been my experience in a relationship. I think it's much more interesting that the guy is the boss. And there are stakes.

I could truly have gone through life thinking that women were these venomous creatures. Turns out, they're not.

There is this idea that you have to play heroines or women who succeed.

If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.

It's a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as if female powerlessness is male self-preservation in disguise. And for millennia, this has made for a zero-sum game: A woman's intelligence was a man's deception.

I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.