I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out.” — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Every day, I wake up and I'm like, "Oh, I'm the star of my own show that has my name in it… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted. The slightly nervous asking of your phone… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I've been working in television for so long, since 2004, and I just worked nonstop throughout that time and I've learned so… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
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… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
We have this saying, and it's been very useful when a series, 'The Mindy Project' goes for longer than a hundred episodes,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“I have a comedy writer friend, Sandy, whose husband left her for another woman the moment his restaurant (which Sandy had invested… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
There is a lot of catarsis that passes itself off as art or comedy and I'm kind of critical of that. I… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
There are time when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a highly… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“There have been times when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“What I didn't need was some hot-and-cold long-distance flake wasting my time. It hurt my feelings and made me feel like something… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I think that it's insidious to be spending more of your time reflecting and talking about panels, and talking more and more… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“It's sort of my go-to stock image of my childhood, actually. I think it has something to do with knowing I'll never… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When I have time to sit and reflect on the different situations that I face every day, I'll be able to speak… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I don't have very much time to surf the net, because it's as though my boss has a tracking device on me.… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When you only do 10 episodes for a final season, every character and all of her interactions in every storyline have so… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
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… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
..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… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a long time,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
“As it is, I guess I find “Jack & Diane” a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can’t help but notice… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
“As it is, I guess I find "Jack and Diane" a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can't help but notice… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
“Even though Mavis was my secret friend, she is the only one I hope I see again. She’s the only one I wonder about.… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
“Be like Allan Pearl. Sit next to the class clown and study him. Then grow up, take everything you learned, and get paid to… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
“Don’t be closer to twice a friend’s weight than to her actual weight,” I told myself. This little mantra has helped me stave off… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share
