Vera Mindy Chokalingam (born June 24, 1979), known professionally as Mindy Kaling, is an American actress, comedian and writer.
In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence of a bunch of your other friends? A great day, for sure, but not the beginning and certainly not the end of your friendship with a person you can't wait to talk about gardening with the for the next forty years.
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.
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.
He was so popular you could barely look at him without being blinded by cool.
Best friend isn't a person, it's a tier.
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.
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.
All I want to do is be a gay icon. I was reading Lady Gaga's twitter, because she has like 12 million followers, or something like that. I feel like she has fans, gay, straight, bi, who would throw themselves off a building for her.
I want it to feel very satisfying, the ending, so you've felt like you were going on a journey and we were trying to lead you somewhere. So going into that, it's made it extremely funny but also a very emotional last season of the 'The Mindy Project'.
More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look
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?
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.
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.
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang - even kids in high school. His short plays were so accessible to younger people and I think that was inspirational to me.
I always knew I wanted kids, but when my mom passed away I was like, 'I want a bunch of kids. I want three kids or four kids, and I want to have that relationship again. ' I can't bring my mom back, but I can have children.
I find it very sad that so many girls who look up to me are young women of color who have been told that they are ugly, and who feel that they are not normal. . . I think it's so important that women look like me find that they can be beautiful or objects of love, attention and affection.
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.
Besides, who wants to read about success, anyway? Successful serial murderers, maybe.
Bribes and boy bands. That’s all you need to be a babysitter.
I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys, and that's something that I don't get to see: arguing at a high level with a member of the opposite sex. That didn't really happen that much on 'The Office. ' I just like that 'Moonlighting,' Benedick-Beatrice type of thing.