Mindy Kaling Quotes

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

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.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

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

We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.

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

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

I feel the same way about clothes as I do about food. I want everything.

I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.

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

One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not.

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

I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

I have a personality defect where I refuse to see myself as an underdog.

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

I guess nothing puts a damper on a one-night stand as much as your friend pointing out all the opportunities where you might have been killed.

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

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

Write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.

If I'm going to be a mess, I might as well be a hot mess, right?

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic.

I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.

People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.

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.

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

I don't consider myself a fashion person, I consider myself a shopping person. As a person who has girlie interests and a little bit of disposable income.

You might also see that some of my playlists are simply two songs on repeat fifteen times, like I’m a psycho getting pumped up to murder the president.

If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.

Anyone who's lost someone to cancer will say this, that you have to struggle to try to remember the person before the diagnosis happened, because they really do change - as anyone would change.

I don't want to be skinny. I'm constantly in a state of self-improvement but I don't beat myself up over it.

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

On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.

I can't have a big breakfast or a big lunch because I get very lethargic, and then I get really cranky. I eat, but I have to eat small, healthful amounts of food.

Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke.

I guess when you go to business school you never turn business off.

I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn't seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.

I stupidly memorize my credit card and use it about thrice weekly for online shopping. The only reason I don't bankrupt myself is that I return about 75% of what I buy.

I have a whole system down for returning online shopping: a tape gun, a printer for return labels. That has replaced traditional window shopping in my life, as I've gotten busier.

You always want to keep your look clean and elegant, but you don't have to do the safe black-dress route. Have some fun! Wear something colorful with a hint of sparkle.