100+ Mindy Kaling Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

Topics: Crush, Jealous, Phones, Small Groups, Phone Numbers

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I guess when you go to business school you never turn business off.

Topics: School, Turns, Business School

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Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.7, Three Rivers Press

Topics: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Gloss, Lip Gloss

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Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.

Topics: Fall, Hard Work, Thinking

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There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.5, Three Rivers Press

Topics: Funny, Beautiful, Sleep, Waking Me Up, Sleeping In

I think references, where they fit organically, are great. It's great to do a show that's real and relatable, and so much of what is real, is using real things and instances that are specific. Specificity is the best tool you can have, as a writer.

Topics: Real, Thinking, Tools, Specificity

I don't have very much time to surf the net, because it's as though my boss has a tracking device on me. The instant I'm looking at a Chloe sweater on Shopbop, I'll get a call in my office with a PA asking: "Paul wants to know where you are and why you're not in the writers room, and if maybe you're online shopping."

Topics: Shopping, Sweaters, Office, Online Shopping, Tracking

I feel the same way about clothes as I do about food. I want everything,

source: - "Mindy Kaling: 'I don't want to be skinny'", www.foxnews.com. March 28, 2014.

Topics: Clothes, Way, Want

People who are good at stand-up, they sort of seem to have to do it. Something within them makes them have to go on the road.

Topics: People, Goes On

Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.

source: - "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2014.

Topics: Role Models, Trying, Roles

"Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?" I didn't believe it, because I'm so contrarian and suspicious of everything. And then to find that it's kind of true is nice.

Topics: Nice, Believe, Trying, It Gets Better

I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog.

source: - "Sundance: Lena Dunham, Kristen Wiig and Your Other Favorite Female Comedians on Misogyny, Sex Scenes, and Their Secret Weapons" by Emily Buder, www.indiewire.com. January 26, 2015.

Topics: Personality, Underdog, Defects

Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?

Topics: Trying, Get Better, It Gets Better

I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four...

Topics: Sexy, Eight, Four, Thirty Eight

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

Topics: Funny, Birthday, Racism, Funny Story

Something that's happened recently is that I don't beat myself up about stuff.

Topics: Stuff, Beats

Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful for women to mentor other women, but it's just as important for women to mentor men and vice-versa. In my line of work, having Greg Daniels be such a great mentor to me is fantastic. Finding a writer's assistant, be it a man or a woman, and encouraging them to think with a feminist perspective, is key.

Topics: Character, Men, Thinking

As I've gotten older, I can look at myself more clearly and own the things that I'm good at and work on the things that I'm not. Like, I am not skinny. I know that if I were to lose a little weight I'd literally have more time in the morning because I know clothes would fit better. And now I can look at those things more practically. Instead of being like, "What does that say about me?," now I'm just like, "That would be great to sleep in an extra fifteen minutes because I wasn't trying on everything in my closet."

Topics: Morning, Sleep, Clothes

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance.

source: - "The Funny Side of Love". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, nymag.com. September 19, 2010.

Topics: Dark, Skins, Resistance, Thick Skin, Dark Skinned

I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.

Topics: Thinking, Skills, Comedy

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.

Topics: Thinking, Remember, Humans

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

Topics: Mom, Profound, My Mom

I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.

Topics: Thinking, People, Political

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

Topics: Men, Thinking, Jeans, Tight Jeans

I feel like I'm in the right profession.

Topics: Feels, Profession

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.55, Crown/Archetype

Topics: Giving, Members, Demographics

I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences.

Topics: Looks, Shows, Cringe

When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.

Topics: Smart, Kids, Thinking, Authority Figures

I always wanted to write, even before I realized that there was a comedy writers' world, or what that life was like. I never thought of myself, at least as a little kid, in terms of being the onscreen talent. I always thought it'd be so much fun to write sketches and be a writer. Even as little as 6 or 7, that's what my main interest was.

Topics: Fun, Kids, Writing

..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.

Topics: Song, Heart, Thinking, Landslides

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

Topics: Men, Thinking, People, Female Comedian, Female Writers

I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.

Topics: Character, Opinion, Controversial

There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no matter what they're projecting, or writing, or producing, or putting forth as their art. I think that's equally arbitrary and random and unfair, and kind of sexist. The secretly sexist way. I have really high standards for what I think is funny. I have that for everything, and I think it would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together.

Topics: Art, Writing, Thinking, Disingenuous

The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is made, and four hours later I'm reading about the Donner Party and texting all my friends: DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE DONNER PARTY AND HOW MESSED UP THAT WAS? TEXT ME BACK SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT!

Topics: Party, Reading, Guy, Almonds, Text Me

I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a big premium on.

Topics: Hate, Quality, Gowns

There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.8, Crown/Archetype

Topics: Differences, Clothes, Awake

I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.

Topics: Princess, Looks, Red

There are so many distractions you can face as a woman, either with relationships or worrying about, Should I go to this party? or, Should I be doing this to help me get ahead? All [success] is, is doing your work and staying focused. It's boring advice, but boring good advice is what you can get from me!

Topics: Funny Inspirational, Party, Worry

I have a goofy side that impacts my clothing a lot. To that end, I love witty, colorful, prints.

Topics: Witty, Impact, Sides

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.

Topics: Inspirational, Mean, Commitment, Romantic Relationship, I Want A Guy

I worship makeup. The basics are always: Stila shadows, LeClerc powder for my crazy shiny skin, Bobbie brown liner pot, Chanel mascara, and Koh Gen Do for foundation, Nars for colors and sparkles.

Topics: Crazy, Makeup, Color

I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.

Topics: Emotional, Expectations, Quality, Hopes Up, Emotional Life

I have a whole system down for returning online shopping: a tape gun, a printer for return labels. That has replaced traditional window shopping in my life, as I've gotten busier.

Topics: Gun, Shopping, Labels, Online Shopping, Printer

I stupidly memorize my credit card and use it about thrice weekly for online shopping. The only reason I don't bankrupt myself is that I return about 75% of what I buy.

Topics: Shopping, Use, Credit, Credit Card, Online Shopping

More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look

Topics: Way, Looks, Half

I am the kind of person that is drawn to colors against my will.

Topics: Color, Kind, Persons

I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.

Topics: Nice, Thinking, Shoes

Directing is exhausting, but not for the actual directing part, when you say "Action!" and give creative notes. As a director, the exhausting part is that you are a professional answer-machine.

Topics: Giving, Creative, Machines

I don't mind that if I ever star in movies, they'll likely be mine. That's okay, because my great role models - Woody Allen, even Tyler Perry, who is actually one of my role models, even if that seems kind of strange - they do that themselves. And it's great. They build empires, and they're known as having their own voice. I think it's 20 times more fun to act on a set where I feel the freedom to change the dialogue.

Topics: Stars, Fun, Thinking, Great Role Models

When I've acted, and it's not been something I've written or have had at least a hand in writing, I do think there is a controlling side of me that is frustrated by that. And I actually don't think that it's a bad thing, because if I'm going to be in movies, in large part they're going to be movies that I write.

Topics: Writing, Thinking, Hands

I once heard that Quentin Tarantino, who I obviously love and think is a genius, says that there's no such thing as guilty pleasure, there's only pleasures. And I do love that idea, because I do think that there's a pretentiousness when people make a list of their favorite things. I like to live a life where I don't think of my pleasures as guilty pleasures.

source: - Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

Topics: Thinking, Ideas, People, Quentin, Guilty Pleasure

I've always had that chip on my shoulder. I've just always been super hard on myself.

Topics: Chips, Shoulders

I am an incredibly impatient person.

Topics: Impatient, Persons

I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.

Topics: Careers, Parent, Ambitious

Those who are saying it's possible [to balance family and business] are often in a little bit of a rarefied place where they also have the money to do that. It's not quite such an easy stance to take when you don't have the same resources. I like to remind people that these are rich Manhattanites and to keep an eye on the fact that, especially with social media and these articles and these blogs, that that is not the reality for most women, unfortunately.

Topics: Eye, Reality, Media, Stance

When you're "East Coast" person, you are so insufferable, and you have no idea. And I was. One, because I was miserable, and nobody liked to be around a miserable person, and two, everything that I thought was so profound, everyone had already dealt with.

Topics: Ideas, Two, Profound, Insufferable, Miserable Person

There wasn't a big tradition of comedy at Dartmouth. More than that, there wasn't really anything artsy going on in Hanover, or even in New Hampshire. The cool thing about the school is that there's nothing for people to watch, so if you were to do a play or a sketch or an improv troupe, it was always packed. There's nowhere else for anyone to go. But there was no comedy.

Topics: School, Play, People, Troupe, Dartmouth

I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. I didn't have a ton of academic skills. It wasn't until I was in high school that I was like, "I guess I like writing dialogue." So that's how I got into it.

Topics: School, Kids, Writing, Writing Dialogue

My understanding of the way sex scenes work is that you're surrounded by crew, and you're cold, and you have to do it eight times 'cause they didn't get the lighting. It doesn't sound pleasant, but you think that actors actually enjoy it?

Topics: Sex, Thinking, Eight

My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her so much.

Topics: Mother

I don't consider myself a fashion person, I consider myself a shopping person. As a person who has girlie interests and a little bit of disposable income.

Topics: Fashion, Shopping, Littles, Disposable

Every actor pretends that they hate sex scenes, and the truth is that they all love them, and they're lying.

Topics: Sex, Lying, Hate

I'm giving a lot of opinions, but I don't give any advice. I'm 31 and I'm not married and having kids. I'm five-foot-three. I weigh, like, 150 pounds and I'm not in this position to be telling people how to live.

Topics: Kids, Feet, Giving, Having Kids

Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it is a completely different skill set.

Topics: Book, Writing, Skills

Every day, I wake up and I'm like, "Oh, I'm the star of my own show that has my name in it and I get to write it and hire actors that I've loved for such a long time!" It's amazing!

Topics: Stars, Writing, Names

There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I think that just because you bare your soul or underwear or private moments it doesn't , or necessarily make for entertainment, or good writing, or funny writing.

Topics: Art, Writing, Thinking

There is this cliche of, "Oh, your professional life is fine, but your romantic life isn't." But, that's also really true of me and all my friends. You don't want to not do something that's relatable simply because you're worried that it might be cliche.

Topics: Want, Might, Life Is, Really True, Romantic Life

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

Topics: Smart, Sneakers, Guy, Converses, Cookie Cutters

I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.

Topics: Erring, Information, Sides, Withholding, Withholding Information

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

Topics: Mind, Allure, Stage, Muster

I think that when you're 5'4" and 150 pounds and you love to chat and you have a blog about shopping, trying to maintain a tiny bit of mystery where you possibly can is not a bad thing.

Topics: Thinking, Shopping, Trying

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

Topics: Generations, Orphan

Sarah [Silverman] writes her own jokes. She doesn't just go through her life and talk about everything. She sits down and crafts jokes. Sometimes her inspiration comes from areas of her life that are risquÃ©. But she is an A-plus professional joke-writer in addition to being very attractive and a great performer.

Topics: Inspiration, Writing, Crafts

My dad is a very snappy dresser; he gets all his stuff tailored. He's an architect, so he's a little more artistically minded.

Topics: Dad, Littles, Stuff, Dressers

I don't ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid, I couldn't be vocal in that way.

Topics: Kids, Parent, Way

My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

Topics: Hard Work, Elderly, People

When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.

Topics: Growing Up, Kids, Boston

My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that's my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.

Topics: Mom, Brother, Dad

In my writers' room, which is mostly men, I get a lot of questions like "What would be the quickest way to pass as a seemingly normal guy between the ages of twenty-five and forty years old?"

Topics: Men, Years, Guy, Forty Years Old

This is extremely challenging when you sound like a 12-year-old girl, and you decide your first personal endeavor is to play, like, a - like, a very macho dude.

Topics: Girl, Years, Play, Macho

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

Topics: Jail, Murder, Fame, Jail Time

Haley and I would talk for hours about which member of 'N Sync we'd want to marry. After long deliberation, the answer was always J. C. Chasez. Joey Fatone's last name was going to be â€œFat Oneâ€ no matter how great he was, and even though they didn't know at their age that Lance Bass was gay outright, they sensed he'd make a better good friend and confidante. As for Justin Timberlake, well, JT was the coolest and hottest, but too flashy, so we couldn't trust him to be faithful. J. C. Chasez was the smart compromise.

Topics: Smart, Gay, Good Friend, Haley, Hottest

In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with the for the next forty years.

Topics: Real, Party, Years

It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I want, which is to be married and have kids and love each other in a monogamous, long-lasting relationship.

Topics: Believe, Mean, Kids, Long Lasting, Long Lasting Relationship

I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

Topics: Teenager, Kids, Parent

There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.

Topics: Teenage, Book, Grateful

Always Wear Flats and Have Your Friends Sleep Over: A Step-by-Step How-To Guide for Avoiding Getting Murdered

Topics: Sleep, Steps, Guides

Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away.

Topics: Revenge, Care, Hot, Ovens

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

Topics: Mom, Mean, Two

The chorus of â€œJack and Dianeâ€ is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.

Topics: School, Long, Gone

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

Topics: Writing, Heart, People, Misanthrope

I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty.

Topics: Ugly, I Realized

I don't need marriage. I don't need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.

Topics: Desire, Care, Needs

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

Topics: Wings, Liberty, Chickens, Chicken Wings

I get so worried about girls with body image stuff And I feel like I have been able to have a fun career and be an on-camera talent and be someone who has boyfriends and love interests and wears nice clothes and those kinds of things without having to be an emaciated stick. And it is possible to do it. In life, you don't have to be that way and you can have a great life, a fun life, and a fulfilling love life.

Topics: Girl, Fun, Nice, Fun Life, Nice Clothes

I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?

Topics: Book, Fighting, Two

Truthfully, I guess I would like to be remembered as a great writer and a kind person. I wouldn't mind if an expensive bag were named after me, like Jane Birkin.

Topics: Mind, Bags, Kind, Kind Person

People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to stay so down-to-earth in the face of such incredible success? ... A third frequently asked question is: "Girl, where you from? Trinidad? Guyana? Dominican Republic? You married? You got kids?" This is mostly asked by guys on the sidewalk selling I LOVE NEW YORK paraphernalia in New York City.

source: - Source: www.movieweb.com

Topics: Girl, New York, Kids, I Love New York, Dominican Republic

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

Topics: Swimming, College, Community, Swimming Pool, Dartmouth

All women love Colin Firth: Mr. Darcy, Mark Darcy, George VIâ€”at this point he could play the Craigslist Killer and people would be like, 'Oh my God, the Craigslist Killer has the most boyish smile!

Topics: Play, People, Would Be, Boyish, Craigslist

A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.

Topics: Tears, Four, Three

If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead of school work. Presenting a homemade knitted object to my parents was actually like handing them a detailed backlog of my idleness.

Topics: Mother, Stupid, School, School Work

Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant. It wasn't because she didn't look sensational - she was that perfect combination of fashionable and slutty - it was because the paparazzi guys were shouting these insanely rude and intrusive questions at her. Like, asking her who she was sleeping with and stuff. I was kind of interested in the answer, so I was glad they asked, but it was still gross.

Topics: Sleep, Paris, Perfect, Perfect Combination

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

Topics: Childhood, Albums

If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is through a long and vivid revenge fantasy.

Topics: Revenge, Exercise, Imagination

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

Topics: Men, White, Parent

Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.87, Crown/Archetype

Topics: Graduation, Writing, Destiny, Write Your Own

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

Topics: Gratitude, Emotion, Closest

If I'm going to be a mess, I might as well be a hot mess, right?

Topics: Hot, Might, Wells, Hot Mess

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.43, Three Rivers Press

Topics: Friendship, Inspiring, Fun, Three Friends, Female Friendship

Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.31, Three Rivers Press

Topics: Girl, Funny Inspirational, Stars, Teenage Girl, Pitiful

Best friend isn't a person, it's a tier.

source: - "Mindy Project: Harry And Sally". TV Series, tv.avclub.com. 2013.

Topics: Persons

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.153, Crown/Archetype

Topics: Feelings, Mind, World

I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms.

source: - "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

Topics: Views, People, Looks

I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.198, Crown/Archetype

Topics: Ipods, Diaries, Looks, Playlists

There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while I’m talking about why I’m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art. I always get asked, ‘Where do you get your confidence?’ I think people are well meaning, but it’s pretty insulting. Because what it means to me is, ‘You, Mindy Kaling, have all the trappings of a very marginalized person. You’re not skinny, you’re not white, you’re a woman. Why on earth would you feel like you’re worth anything?’

source: - "Mindy Kaling Talks Body Image, Being A Role Model And Losing Her Mother, In Parade". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2013.

Topics: Girl, Art, Inspiration, Belittle

When I was a kid, I would always write down lists of my favorite things and keep them in my wallet, just in case someone ever needed to know what my 10 favorite foods were, or my 10 favorite actors.

source: - Source: film.avclub.com

Topics: Writing, Kids, My Favorite

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

source: - "The Office's Mindy Kaling on Why You Need a Man, Not a Boy" by Mindy Kaling, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2011.

Topics: Loss, Men, Hair, Cholesterol, Waking Up Early

Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.130, Three Rivers Press

Topics: Amy, Moments

I have crushes on celebrities or people I meet or see in the coffee shop, and every day I fall in love with three people simply because they said one funny thing or appeared to me in a certain way.

Topics: Crush, Falling In Love, Coffee, I Have A Crush, Coffee Shop

Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.

Topics: Brain, Body, Speak

I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?

source: - "The New New Girl: Mindy Kaling Promotes Herself Out of The Office and Into The Mindy Project". Interview with Jada Yuan, www.vulture.com. September 9, 2012.

Topics: Badass, Comedy Writing, Self, Female Comedian

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

source: - "‘The Mindy Project’ Cast Interview: Inspiration, What’s Next, Dream Guest Stars And More" by Maggie Furlong, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

Topics: Mom, Sound, Ongoing

Future hipsters will love me ironically.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.62, Crown/Archetype

Topics: Hipster

I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.

Topics: Women, Halloween, Gay, Halloween And Friends

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.33, Three Rivers Press

Topics: Years, Realizing, Hanging Out

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.31, Crown/Archetype

Topics: Inspiring, Stars, School

The chorus of “Jack and Diane” is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone. Are you kidding me? The thrill of living was high school? Come on, Mr. Cougar Mellencamp. Get a life.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.34, Three Rivers Press

Topics: School, Long, Gone, Cougars

I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.101, Crown/Archetype

Topics: Nice, Careers, Forget

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance.

source: - "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

Topics: People, Romance, Nerd

I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these other things - you know, people's demands of you reflecting on your otherness. And for this white critic to say, "I don't understand why she doesn't do that" - and you're like, "It's because I'm running a show on a major network and I want the show to continue" - and to sort of guilt me.

source: - "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

Topics: Running, Thinking, White, Otherness

I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything.

source: - "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

Topics: Odysseus

Of course, everyone wants to be mythologized in a great way.

source: - "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

Topics: Want, Way, Courses

Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

source: - "In New Memoir, Mindy Kaling Has More To Say On Life, Love And Showbiz". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

Topics: Character, Names, Confusion

There are time when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a highly anticipated kissing session. Other times it's a full-on all-night sex-a-thon. Can't we have a universal understanding of the term, once and for all? From now on, let's all agree that hooking up = sex. Everything else is 'made out.' And if you're older than twenty-eight, then just kissing someone doesn't count for crap and is not even worth mentioning. Unless you're Mormon, in which case you're going to hell.

Topics: Sex, Mean, Kissing, Kissing Someone, Thon

I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.

source: - "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

Topics: People, Want, Students

I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women.

source: - "Mindy Kaling: 'People think that because I like girly things I'm dumb'". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

Topics: Talking, Clothes, Dresses

I think I've always wanted to be a role model, and I think ... everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. I think it's like the thing keeping me out of jail.

source: - "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

Topics: Thinking, Jail, Role Models

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, they've made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

Topics: Hurt, Character, Work Out, Unrealistic Expectations, Meg

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

source: - "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

Topics: Romantic, Office, Feelings, True Feelings, Mock

I found it to be smooth sailing - 100 percent smooth sailing my whole career.

source: - "Not My Job: Mindy Kaling Gets Quizzed On Do-It-Yourself Projects". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. June 20, 2015.

Topics: Smooth Sailing, Careers, Found

I have a love/hate relationship with my body, Some days I'm happy with it and other days I wasn't born with Gisele Bundchen's body unfortunately, so you got to work for it - but it's okay.” Madonna “Do I sometimes look at Gisele Bündchen and wonder how awesome life would be if I never had to wear Spanx? Duh, of course. That's kind of the point of Gisele Bündchen.

Topics: Hate, Body, Would Be, Spanx, Love Hate Relationship

I was obsessed with being popular when I was in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals and things, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

source: - "Mindy Kaling On Diets, High School And Other American Pastimes". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. November 1, 2011.

Topics: School, Costumes, Obsessed, Being Popular, High School Musical

Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

source: - "Check Out Mindy Kaling As Marge Simpson!". www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.

Topics: Growing Up, Tv Shows, America

In high school, I had fun in my academic clubs, watching movies with my girlfriends, learning Latin, having long, protracted, unrequited crushes on older guys who didn’t know me, and yes, hanging out with my family. I liked hanging out with my family! Later, when you’re grown up, you realize you never get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that’s it.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.33, Crown/Archetype

Topics: Crush, Girlfriend, Fun, Older Guys, I Had Fun

Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.

source: - "Interview: Mindy Kaling Talks Sex In Sweet Valley (And Other Concerns)". Interview with Sara Benincasa, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

Topics: School, Kids, College

I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn’t conversation. It’ll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, “Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake.

Topics: Stress, Thinking, Cake, Stressed Out

I'm actually an impatient person. I'm very suited for television because with the process, it's six weeks from the time you come up with an episode until when it airs. We can't drag it out that long. With film, and this is not a profound observation or an original one; it can go on endlessly unless the movie's like incredibly topical. That's the challenge for me, as an impatient person who wants see things come to life. ... I mean, it's just this feeling I get when I see a movie I love.

source: - Source: deadline.com

Topics: Mean, Long, Profound

I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn't seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.

source: - "Lena Dunham Hilariously, Candidly Interviews Mindy Kaling". Interview with Lena Dunham, www.rollingstone.com. November 11, 2013.

Topics: Inspiring, Mom, Mother

There's obviously instances where I perceive sexism in my job. ... I think that the sort of sexism that I see has been one that's a little bit like a gentler form of sexism, but still a little bit debilitating, which is that when, as a producer and a writer, whether it was at The Office or [at The Mindy Project], if I make a decision, it'll still seem like it's up for debate.

source: - "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

Topics: Jobs, Thinking, Office

I've been working in television for so long, since 2004, and I just worked nonstop throughout that time and I've learned so much. I've definitely done that 10,000 hours. I know the format really well and I feel comfortable in it. I'm excited about going into something I'm not so comfortable in, which is film.

source: - Source: deadline.com

Topics: Long, Done, Film

My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'

source: - "Mindy Kaling: 'People think that because I like girly things I'm dumb'" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

Topics: Dad, America, People, Madras

You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpopular, is that if I'm going to work every single day, I don't think you should have to hug people hello every single day when you come to work. I saw you Monday!

Topics: Goodbye, Monday, Thinking

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

Topics: Running, Work Out, Shapes, Endorphins

I find it very sad that so many girls who look up to me are young women of color who have been told that they are ugly, and who feel that they are not normal...I think it's so important that women look like me find that they can be beautiful or objects of love, attention and affection.

Topics: Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.186, Crown/Archetype

Topics: May, Wells, Picks

I'm not married, I frequently use my debit card to buy things that cost less than three dollars, and my bedroom is so untidy it looks like vandals ransacked the Anthropologie sale section. I'm kind of a mess.

source: - "The Office's Mindy Kaling on Why You Need a Man, Not a Boy" by Mindy Kaling, www.glamour.com. October 3, 2011.

Topics: Dollars, Three, Cards, Debit, Debit Cards

If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.218, Three Rivers Press

Topics: Party, Bye, Pockets

My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.

Topics: Zero, Creativity, Parent, Whimsy

Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2015). “Why Not Me?”, p.200, Crown Archetype

Topics: Why Not

People seem to be having these awesome sex lives and I'm just trying to find a life partner to go apple picking with. What's wrong with me?

source: - "‘The Mindy Project’ Season 1, Episode 11 Recap: ‘Hooking Up Is Hard’" by Leigh Weingus, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

Topics: Sex, Apples, People, Life Partner

I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.

source: - "Mindy Kaling: 'I don't want to be skinny'". Vogue Magazine, www.foxnews.com. March 28, 2014.

Topics: Self, Want, Skinny, Body Image

I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist.

Topics: Fashion, Hate, Fall, Fatty, Legion

In junior high, there were a lot of really ugly guys who were popular because they made people laugh. I was like, "Wow, comedy is the great freer of hideous people." It was an incredibly liberating thing. If you ask a girl, "What do you want in a guy?" 99 percent are like, "I just want him to be funny." I thought, "If that applies to women, I'm set.

Topics: Girl, People, Laughing, Ask A Girl

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.

Topics: Funny, Ideas, People

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It’s the reason why people love Harry Potter. Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you’re a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

source: - "Mindy Kaling Talks Sex in Sweet Valley (And Other Concerns)". Interview with Sara Benincasa, www.bookish.com. November 21, 2011.

Topics: Book, Character, Kids

Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines.

source: - Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

Topics: Art, People, Laughing

I’ve worked in television for 10 years straight. If I were a man, it wouldn’t be considered strange [to have confidence] at all.

Topics: Men, Years, Television

True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.

source: - Twitter post from Nov 14, 2013

Topics: Love, Relationship, Laughing

Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.4, Three Rivers Press

Topics: Rude, Hey, Disclaimers

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.

Topics: Curvy, Overweight

I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

Topics: Minorities, World, Want

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Topics: Media, People, Faces, Earnestness, Face Value

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

source: - Twitter post from Aug 5, 2012

Topics: People, Bees, Realistic

I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office.' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.

Topics: Sex, Smart, Fighting, Benedick

I'm too excited to sleep!

source: - "Fictional character: Kelly Kapoor". TV Series "The Office" ("Lecture Circuit: Part 2", 2009), 2005-2013.

Topics: Sleep, Excited

There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don’t want to be skinny. I’m constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don’t beat myself up over it.

source: - "Mindy Kaling Makes Her Vogue Debut, Proudly Tells the Magazine: 'I Don't Want to Be Skinny'" by Zach Johnson, www.eonline.com. March 27, 2014.

Topics: Self, Always Trying, Example

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

Topics: Book, School, Expectations, Academic Success

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

source: - "The Exchange: Mindy Kaling" by Kate Bittman, www.newyorker.com. October 14, 2011.

Topics: Ego, Comedy, Fragile

Bribes and boy bands. That’s all you need to be a babysitter.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.69, Three Rivers Press

Topics: Boys, Needs, Band, Boy Bands, Babysitter

For heaven’s sake, if you don’t know someone’s name, just pretend you do. Do that thing everyone else does, where you vaguely say, “Nice to see you!” and make weak eye contact.

source: - Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.4, Crown/Archetype

Topics: Nice, Eye, Names, Nice To See You

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

source: - "Interview: Mindy Kaling Talks Sex In Sweet Valley (And Other Concerns)". Interview with Sara Benincasa, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

Topics: Girly, Kind, Tweet

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

Topics: Stories, Helping, Fantasy, Fantasy Life

If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

Topics: Thinking, People, Littles

I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world.

source: - "Flick Chicks" by Mindy Kaling, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2011.

Topics: Being Single, Being Alone, Different, Funny Anti Valentines Day, Anti Valentine

What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity.

source: - "Flick Chicks" by Mindy Kaling, www.newyorker.com. October 3, 2011.

Topics: Romantic, Writing, Past, Admission

Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?