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
My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“What’s that? You’ve never heard of the freshman thirty-five? That’s funny, because neither had my parents, who welcomed me home on spring… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
My mother is more of an adviser. I followed everything she did when I was younger, because I looked up to her… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn't seem to encompass… — 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 think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going… — 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
“When I have kids I will largely follow how my parents raised me, because, like everyone else on the planet, I think… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“I wish there was a song called “Nguyen and Ari,” a little ditty about a hardworking Vietnamese girl who helps her parents… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“Boys are adorable. Boys trail off their sentences in an appealing way. Boys bring a knapsack to work. Boys get haircuts from… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“I am so accustomed to the young mom phenomenon, that when I saw the poster for The Proposal I wondered for a… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
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… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I don't ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I’m the one who looks at the infant, smiles nervously, and as my contribution to small talk, robotically announces to the parent,… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question… — 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 Image
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 Image
..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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part. — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
“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 Image
