Melissa Quotes:

Melissa Pritchard is a treasure.

- Bradford Morrow

topic: Treasure, Melissa

A road-wise folkie with a bluesy soul reminiscent of early Michelle Shocked, Melissa Crabtree is an original storyteller and performer not to be missed.

- Catie Curtis

topic: Wise, Soul, Melissa

No matter what the character is, I just say to myself 'If I, Melissa George, was in that situation, how would I react?' and once you do that you can just go for it, and hopefully the performance comes through.

- Melissa George

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Character, Matter, Melissa

Melissa [ Rosenberg] really has mastered coming from character. Everything radiates from the characters in this work. You don't feel like anything's imposed.

- Jane Espenson

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Character, Melissa, Feels

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

- Gregg Allman

topic: Song, Writing, People, Melissa

My big sister Melissa, is such a stud and my little sister Suzanna, has always had a perfect body and big blue eyes. We were a force.

- Jennifer Garner

topic: Eye, Sister In Law, Blue, Big Sister, Melissa

Don't tell your kids you had an easy birth or they won't respect you. For years I used to wake up my daughter and say, 'Melissa you ripped me to shreds. Now go back to sleep.'.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Daughter, Mother, Sleep, Melissa

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Unique, Way, Authenticity, Melissa

Instead of taking five or six of the prescriptions, I decided to go a natural route and smoke marijuana.

- Melissa Etheridge

source: "Melissa Etheridge's anthem of hope". "Dateline" with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. October 16, 2005.

topic: Marijuana, Six, Natural, Medical Marijuana, Cannabis

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else'.

- Melissa McCarthy

source: "Melissa McCarthy's Emotional Interview: Finding Love, Coping with Critics and Becoming a Star – Her Way". Interview with Kate Coyne, people.com. June 25, 2014.

topic: Different, Want, Needed, Plus Size, Melissa

To be completely stripped bare of any image power or my hair. To step onstage and get the response that I got blew any problems I had about self-image out the door.

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Hair, Doors, Self, Melissa

I feel my heart break to see a nation ripped apart by it's own greatest strength - it's diversity.

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Strength, Heart, Diversity, Inspirational Diversity, Melissa

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.

- Melissa McCarthy

source: "Melissa McCarthy: 'I don't know why I am not thinner'", www.foxnews.com. November 7, 2012.

topic: Proud, Littles, Lips, Melissa

I had a lot of self-loathing, .. I've been self-sustained since I was 11. I've always been the one making the money, and to be flat on my back and .. so vulnerable and then be completely loved. To have my wife be there, 110% supportive. To have my children say, 'It's OK, Mom.' To have the people that I work for say, 'It's OK.' To have my fans go, 'It's all right.' It's like, what was I afraid of? I'm going to get healthy now, and I'm not going to carry that baggage anymore.

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Mom, Children, Self, Melissa

I had a friend, Melissa, who was 28 years old. She was my best friend's wife, and she was my wife's best friend. She died of breast cancer. When she passed away back in 2004 was the last time I cried.

- Jason Aldean

topic: Friendship, Cancer, Years, Melissa

Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.

- Josh Gad

topic: Bullying, Thinking, Identity, Not Okay, Designation

Of the many qualities I adore about Melissa McCarthy as a comedian and as a dramatic actor, the best is how fully she gives herself to every character she plays.

- Lisa Schwarzbaum

topic: Character, Play, Giving, Melissa

Well, PZ Myers, Jen McCreight, Phil Plait, Amanda Marcotte, Greg Laden, Melissa McEwan and others have all already said it, but I figured I should post this for the record: yes, Richard Dawkins believes I should be a good girl and just shut up about being sexually objectified because it doesn’t bother him. Thanks, wealthy old heterosexual white man!

- Rebecca Watson

topic: Girl, Believe, Men, Plaits, Melissa

According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of central Europe—our home, now, ours and our children's to come—into a raging inferno. We are surrounded by a Ring of Fire. Well, I've fought forest fires before. So have lots of other men in this room. The best way to fight [such] a fire is to start a counterfire. So my position is simple. I say we start the American Revolution—a hundred and fifty years ahead of schedule!

- Michael Stearns

topic: Kings, Children, Home, Forest Fires, Noblemen

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids) is a gimmick comedian who has devoted her short career to being obese and obnoxious with equal success.

- Rex Reed

source: "Declined: In Identity Thief, Bateman’s Bankable Billing Can’t Lift This Flick out of the Red" by Rex Reed, observer.com. February 5, 2013.

topic: Careers, Comedian, Bridesmaids, Obese, Melissa

I realize now what a great job my wife Michelle did, not only in raising our children, Melissa, Amy, Dustin, and Jenna, but in taking care of me.

- Robin Yount

topic: Jobs, Children, Wife, Take Care Of Me, Melissa

I have so many [on-set Glee BFFs]. I love Kevin (McHale). I love Amber (Riley); Amber and I are essentially the same person, even though one’s fiercer than the other—don’t tell her it’s me. I love Chris Colfer, he’s a gem. Melissa (Benoist) and Blake (Jenner), I love them. We’re such a tight-knight family because we spend so much time together.

- Alex Newell

topic: Bff, Knights, Together, Melissa

Now if I go through it again, I think I would be a lot more open about it. I admire people who have been open like Melissa Ethridge and women I see walking around facing it without wigs and all of that stuff. I think I would be more courageous next time.

- Kathy Bates

topic: Cancer, Thinking, People, Next Time, Melissa

I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and said, 'It's such an honor playing your daughter,' and she smiled and said, 'Oh, shut up.' I thought, 'Great, a normal person.'

- Kara Lindsay

topic: Mom, Daughter, Mother, Your Daughter, Melissa

On her daughter Melissa: The only time she really cried is when I sat her down and told her that she was not adopted.

- Joan Rivers

topic: Daughter, Mother, Down And, Melissa

Sarcasm doesn't suit you, Melissa,' Graham growled. 'Really? I've always thought it brings out my eyes.

- Christine Warren

source: Christine Warren (2012). “On the Prowl”, p.221, Macmillan

topic: Eye, Sarcasm, Suits, Melissa

There's no reason not to employ, seek out and take a chance on a woman filmmaker that you might not have been looking at her direction. She's not done it before because you've not given her the opportunity to do it before, and I'm just happy that folks like Jessica Jones' Melissa Rosenberg and folks like Ryan Murphy are also embracing this idea.

- Ava DuVernay

source: Source: deadline.com

topic: Opportunity, Ideas, Done, Jessica, Jessica Jones

I think Melissa McCarthy is a force of nature. She's just incredible. And it's purely her talent that has rocketed her in such little time from a marvelous supporting role in "Bridesmaids" to being the lead in several films that are coming out this year. She's extraordinary.

- Seth Gordon

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Thinking, Years, Roles, Bridesmaids, Supporting Roles

If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.

- Jackie Morse Kessler

source: Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Art, Optimistic, Eye, Melissa, Puke

"I've learned what's funny verbally ain't so funny on e-mail: They don't hear your intonations. Melissa broke up with somebody over that. She tried to tell him: "That was a joke!" But he just didn't get it. Mick Jagger said, "F- 'em if they don't get the joke." And I love him. That comes with age: Knowing it's their problem, not mine."

- Joan Rivers

topic: Humor, I Love Him, Knowing, Jagger, Intonation

When I was born, my father named me Melissa, and I am still Melissa but I got the nickname Lizzo around the time I was in the Cornrow Clique. I'm from Houston, so naturally, everyone dropped the second syllable of your name and just put an "O" there.

- Lizzo

topic: Father, Names, Houston, Melissa

I'll only work on TV shows that have a 'Sookie' on them! Those are the only shows that will cast me. And I've never even met a Sookie in my life. Sookie on 'Gilmore Girls' was played by Melissa McCarthy. And Sookie, played by Anna Paquin, is number one on the call sheet on 'True Blood.' Somebody should write another script with a Sookie in it.

- Todd Lowe

source: "Of Barbecue and Vampires". Interview with R.U. Steinberg, www.austinchronicle.com. June 13, 2013.

topic: Girl, Writing, Blood, Melissa, Gilmore Girls

Because Melissa McCarthy actually is a fat woman, she isnt allowed to make brash statements about body acceptance. She has to apologize for her body.

- Jennifer Armintrout

topic: Acceptance, Body, Apologizing, Fat Women, Melissa

Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts to us: humor, irony, kindness, brilliance.

- Antonya Nelson

topic: Stars, Kindness, Dizzy, Melissa

I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy.

- Rick Moody

topic: Humble, Writing, Years, Melissa

I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to be around for a very long time. I want to be like a Sheryl Crow or a Melissa Etheridge or even a Madonna with how her career has lasted so long and she is still respected in the music business. That's really what I am aiming for. I'm not really looking for 15 minutes of fame.

- Cheyenne Kimball

source: Source: www.nbcnews.com

topic: Careers, Long, Crow, Melissa

SPENCER: Hide and seek was my favorite game with Melissa. You want to know why? I always won.

- Sara Shepard

topic: Games, Want, My Favorite, Hide And Seek, Melissa

I can be a rock star with a television show and still have a self-esteem problem. So it's nice to have your dad go, 'Hey Melissa, I'm proud of you - you're doing good.'

- Melissa Etheridge

topic: Stars, Dad, Nice, Proud Of You, Melissa