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Mindy Kaling

(1979) Voice Actor United States

415 quotes in 1579 categories

Mindy Kaling says many women enjoy the chase, preferring partners who don’t hand over what they desire. She jokes that true love feels like karaoke under pressure, where both singers share the spotlight. She also reflects on how romantic‑comedy expectations can be both helpful and harmful.

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Mindy Kaling is a voice actor from the United States, best known for Why not me?.

Quick Facts About Mindy Kaling

Born: June 24, 1979
Nationality: United States
Profession: Voice Actor
Notable works: Why not me?
Known for: The Office, The Mindy Project, Inside Out, Late Night, Velma

About Mindy Kaling

Vera Mindy Chokalingam, known as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter and producer. She has received a Tony Award and six Primetime Emmy nominations for her television work. In 2021 she was given the National Medal of the Arts, and in 2023 she earned the Producers Guild of America’s Norman Lear Achievement in Television Award. She founded the production company Kaling International in 2012.

Awards & Honors

Writers Guild of America Award

Quotes by Mindy Kaling

I'm too excited to sleep!

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Skinny foodie, get away from me.

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I feel like I'm in the right profession.

Career

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

Best friend

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Future hipsters will love me ironically.

Hipster

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I am an incredibly impatient person.

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Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.

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That's what she said.

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

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

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

Confidence

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

Career

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

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

Being nice

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

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

Diaries

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A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three…

Flood

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Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of…

Children

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

Fantasy

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“ What else should I know? (1) There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see…

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“No food is as delicious as food you eat standing a foot away from a trash can. Ask any possum. THE”

Delicious food

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

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It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."

Character

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“A not 100-percent-perfect-looking-in-every-way female? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two hours.”

Squid

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There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of…

Ambitious

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I worship makeup. The basics are always: Stila shadows, LeClerc powder for my crazy shiny skin, Bobbie brown liner pot, Chanel mascara,…

Basics

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“One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to…

Best friend

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If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to…

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It would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all…

Competitive

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I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids…

Comedy

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I must have been 10 or 11, but anything Dana Carvey ever did, I just really loved. He was on for a…

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“However, you should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well.…

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Once I saw Paris Hilton leaving a restaurant in Hollywood and the paparazzi cameras were all over her. It looked so unpleasant.…

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“Every couple of months or so, some boundary breaking article comes out in a nationally published magazine. The article makes a big…

Family unit

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“In my heart, I believe that I am a passionate and intuitive cook who could make a five-course meal without even looking…

Chef

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“I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.” No one is bad with…

Eye contact

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“I spent a great deal of my youth fantasizing about entertaining. In my early twenties I would spend hours poring over cookbooks…

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“If someone called me chubby, it would no longer be something that kept me up late at night. Being called fat is…

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There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being…

Art

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People ask me all the time how I got hired onto the Office. Another common question is how do I manage to…

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Mindy Kaling by topic

Thinking (53) People (47) Writing (37) Life (33) Time (28) Parenting (27) Comedy (27) Humor (24) Love (23) Kids (23) Parent (19) Men (19) Fashion (18)