Mindy Kaling Quotes

Best friend isn't a person, it's a tier.

Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly.

Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.

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.

I love telling press the designers I'm wearing, especially if they are emerging. That's exciting to me, supporting talented newcomers.

Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pretty much have only eighteen years to spend with them full time, and that's it.

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms.

Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler.

When I was a kid, I would always write down lists of my favorite things and keep them in my wallet, just in case someone ever needed to know what my 10 favorite foods were, or my 10 favorite actors.

There are many teenage vampire books you could have purchased instead. I'm grateful you made this choice.

I have crushes on celebrities or people I meet or see in the coffee shop, and every day I fall in love with three people simply because they said one funny thing or appeared to me in a certain way.

A remarkable thing about me is that the time that elapses between a sad thought and a flood of tears is three or four seconds.

Future hipsters will love me ironically.

I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.

I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.

I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I was, surprisingly, have loved romance.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.

I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.

I feel like I'm in the right profession.

Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?

I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.

Of course, everyone wants to be mythologized in a great way.

I've always had that chip on my shoulder. I've just always been super hard on myself.

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

I have never regretted erring on the side of withholding information.

I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything.

I am an incredibly impatient person.

I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women.

I think I've always wanted to be a role model, and I think ... everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model. I think it's like the thing keeping me out of jail.

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

I'm too excited to sleep!

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

If you're a kid who was not especially a star in your high school, I recommend going to a college in the middle of nowhere. I got all the attention I could ever have wanted.

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

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.'

When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.

I am always surprised at what movie studios think people will want to see. I'm even more surprised at how often they are correct.

If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to exercise anymore is through a long and vivid revenge fantasy.

I feel like the high-concept shows that have some kind of gimmick tend not to be the hit classic shows of all time.

The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love to wear, it's almost a full overlap on the Venn diagram, which is unfortunate for me.

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

I initially thought you were ugly, but then you walked closer to me and I realized you were pretty.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face—who will love them now?

When smart people are nice, it's always terrifying, because I know they're taking in everything and thinking all kinds of smart and potentially judgmental things.