Quotes by Mindy Kaling

Im not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasnt good at sports, I wasnt good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

I have a great job writing for The Office, but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. Ill 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.

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.

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.

When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. There was a witch who lived there, and a mummy. When they were all hassling him, this guy who bought the house - I cant believe I remember this - he said to them, Whos paying the mortgage on this haunted house? I thought that was really funny.

I would love to be married. But its not a necessity like the way that I feel I need and want to have children. It would be wonderful to have a husband, and I would feel blessed to do it. But I would feel sad for the rest of my life if I had no kids.

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

What Id 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.

I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both helped me and hurt me in many ways. It helped me because, in general, theyve made me hopeful. I just figure things will eventually work out for me. But nobody is like any Tom Hanks character. Nobody is Hugh Grant. No one is Meg Ryan!

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

I have such a rich fantasy life, I cant help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

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 theres 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.

When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but thats not it. Its a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.

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 feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because thats what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.