If you’ve seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don’t think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can’t believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl. Mindy Kaling Read Quote
There’s the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume. Mindy Kaling Read Quote
People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are. Mindy Kaling Read Quote
I have a great job writing for ‘The Office,’ but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I’ll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean. Mindy Kaling Read Quote
What I’d really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel almost embarrassed revealing this, because the genre has been so degraded in the past twenty years that saying you like romantic comedies is essentially an admission of mild stupidity. Mindy Kaling Read Quote
I went to Dartmouth College so simply by being an Indian-American woman, I was already so statistically interesting. And then the fact that I didn’t want to do anything science-related, and I wanted to write comedy plays and act little bit – I mean, I became deeply interesting in college because of how rare that was. Mindy Kaling Read Quote
Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling – that there’s nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can. Mindy Kaling Read Quote
People don’t want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That’s why comedy writers do well – we put out little funny ideas. Mindy Kaling Read Quote
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we’re going to eat is hotly debated. Mindy Kaling Read Quote
Twitter is so short, it’s safe. I don’t want my bosses to be like, ‘Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.’ Mindy Kaling Read Quote
