Quotes by

Mindy Kaling

Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. Its the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I dont like at work where you stop everything to sing Happy Birthday to someone. I feel like thats for children. – Mindy Kaling

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. Its the reason why people love Harry Potter. Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when youre a young kid, you get attached to these characters. – Mindy Kaling

Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I cant get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so its a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback. – Mindy Kaling

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. Its something you dont see dramatized, but almost every minority I know whos my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities. – Mindy Kaling

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

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

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. – Mindy Kaling

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. – Mindy Kaling