Melissa McCarthy Quotes

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

I was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

I was an unhappy teenager, and there's just no way around it.

I was a psycho in college.

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

In my teenage years, there was a lot of angst going on.

By my mid-20s, I was a total mess.

A lot of my songs are about being a teenager with a tornado in your head.

You never know what they're going through. Maybe they failed a test. Maybe they're going through a state of depression. Kids go through so much.

I was not a happy teenager in the slightest.

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

I'm just a psycho myself. I loved playing Leila [from Fifty Shades Darker], taking on [a character] who's completely unhinged. I saw her as a girl who's grief-stricken and she just doesn't have the tools to cope. Grief and heartbreak, it makes you do some pretty crazy things.

You're heading for a breakdown. Why don't you pull yourself to pieces?

I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.

Crazy girls did this, girls who walked like zombies through YA novels. But. Trixie felt the sting of the skin as it split, the sweet welling rise of blood. It hurt, though not as much as everything else idd.

Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.

People who are extremely inside their head, like he was, are caught in a neurosis that goes round and round. Then something will hook them and take them to their end and they can't control it.

Going to the darkest place you can to make yourself really upset and adding that with the physicality and running around, you can work yourself into hysteria that way.

I was an emotional basket case.

I'm going through a stage where the dumbest things make me bawl. I feel like I need to see a shrink.

Psychotherapy is a sanctuary; it is a battleground; it is a place I have been psychotic, neurotic, elated, confused, and despairing beyond belief.

Dad was just an emotional wreck. He was drinking a lot of the time, he was smoking a lot of pot. And because he takes certain medications, the drinking was making him... you know, he wasn't even present, really.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.