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Mindy Kaling

(1979) Voice Actor United States

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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 professionally as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. Known for her work on television, she has received a Tony Award and six nominations at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Among other honors, she has also received the National Medal of the Arts in 2021 and the Producers Guild of America's Norman Lear Achievement in Television Award in 2023. Kaling founded the production company Kaling International in 2012.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Writers Guild of America Award

Quotes by Mindy Kaling

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

Giving

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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,…

Coast

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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,…

Androids

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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…

Anything

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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…

Children

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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…

Children

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

Karaoke

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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…

Character

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

Female

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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.…

College

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

Half

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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…

Friendship

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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…

Being alone

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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…

Class clown

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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…

Friendship

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I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact…

Act

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If I gave my mother a knitted scarf she'd be worried I was wasting my time doing stupid stuff like knitting instead…

Homemade

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“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…

Children

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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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All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million…

Building

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“And the stairs. Oh, the stairs. The staircase in our third-floor walk-up was the steepest, hardest, metal-est staircase I have ever encountered…

Life

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There are time when friends have said they hooked up with someone and all it means is that they had a highly…

Agree

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

Assumption

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

Color

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I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan a date…

Bachelorette

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Mindy Kaling by topic

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