Character Quotes by Mindy Kaling

14 Character quotes by Mindy Kaling

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Mindy Kaling’s take on character feels like a casual chat with a friend who’s always got a fresh take. In just fourteen lines she stitches humor and honesty, giving you a taste of how she sees personal depth without any fluff.

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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."

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

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

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Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but…

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It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal'…

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As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in…

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It's weird: I was in a conference room, shouting out story ideas in the voices of different characters, and it was something…

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People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that…

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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…

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When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a…

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I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me…

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When you only do 10 episodes for a final season, every character and all of her interactions in every storyline have so…

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Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the…

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We have this saying, and it's been very useful when a series, 'The Mindy Project' goes for longer than a hundred episodes,…

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I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase.

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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…

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..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…

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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 long time,…

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“As it is, I guess I find “Jack & Diane” a little disgusting. As a child of immigrant professionals, I can’t help but notice…

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“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…

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

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I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many…

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There's a female writer-performer thing going on in TV right now.

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Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short…

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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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“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.…

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

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“Be like Allan Pearl. Sit next to the class clown and study him. Then grow up, take everything you learned, and get paid to…

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“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…

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