Melissa McCarthy Quotes

Your background and environment is with you for life. No question about that.

I rejected being a lot of things that I grew up in, and yet I didn't. I got all my tactics from where I grew up... I can talk about all the people in those environments more than I can talk about the teachers at Juilliard or anyone else.

I think we all are kind of colored by whatever we were raised with or what we came up believing in.

I think it's a combination of my peoples that I grew up under, places that I hung out is what contributed to where I'm at now.

I think we all are people that are the product of our backgrounds. It's wrong to think that you're not.

If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.

My upbringing is why I am the person I am today. I have very wise parents.

All I can do is take influences from where I was raised.

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

There is a probably natural and learned reticence with myself talking about my early life.

We are such a product of our upbringing and environment.

I came from a very strict background, and didn't hear any Jamaican music when I was growing up.

I didn't come from a background of films. I didn't even really ever watch films. The fact is, my parents weren't into that stuff, and neither was I.

What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

I don't know if people are born with a worldview or if their thinking is a product of their environment.

I'm sure everything has a bearing on what I'm doing. My family is a lower-middle-class family, there's lots of children, seven brothers, two sisters grew up together, fighting with each other, went to school. My mother went to school up to 4th grade. My father went to school up to 8th grade. So that's about the education level we had in the family.

I think you are a product of the environment you surround yourself in, and everything you've experienced is a part of you and the fabric you are in.

I don't think of myself particularly as a Scottish director, but you are what you are because the first ten years of your life, and where you spend them, brand you. In that sense, I'll always be a Scottish director.

I came from a good family and a nice area, but I went to a rough state school.

I grew up one of three girls, and none of them were into comic books, so I wasn't exposed to that world.

I didn't grow up reading magazines; I was very much in an environment where that would have been deemed trivial, frivolous.

I'm a product of the different - whether it be institutional racialism, whether it might be growing up in a low-income area, whether it might be, you know, coming from my mother, my father. I'm a totally different person from my mother and father, but once again I'm from them. We all have our different souls, but I'm from them.

I just think the time and where I was brought up had a great deal to do in giving me the ambition to kind of get out and do something and not go into the steel mill.

I have been brought up in an environment which was quite an exciting childhood.