3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that’s not it. It’s a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling 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.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling 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.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I’ve ever had in my life.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I’ve been surprised at how much I’ve been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that’s true.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling I would love to be married. But it’s 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.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling My dad’s whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn’t have that big Indian community. I don’t really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, ‘meh, let’s talk about something else.’
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling Twitter is the most amazing medium for a comedy writer. I can’t get in every idea I want on the show no matter how hard I try to bully the other writers, so it’s a way of me getting out other comic ideas and immediately getting feedback.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling On ‘The Office,’ so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling I’m not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn’t good at sports, I wasn’t 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It’s something you don’t see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who’s my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling People don’t want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That’s why comedy writers do well – we put out little funny ideas.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don’t have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling 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.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It’s the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don’t like at work where you stop everything to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to someone. I feel like that’s for children.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.
3 December 2020 Mindy Kaling I have such a rich fantasy life, I can’t help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.
