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" People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are. "
Mindy Kaling
Movies
Bee
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" I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world. "
Mindy Kaling
Person
Woman
World
" I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all. "
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Night
Saturday
Doctor
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
Listen
People
Ideas
" I love talking about clothes with women; it's like a code because women dress for women. "
Mindy Kaling
Clothes
Dress
Love
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
I Am
People
See
" I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not. "
Mindy Kaling
Underdog
Weird
Spirit
" I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have children. I just assume it will happen and that it's the right way to do things. It's a deeply Indian custom - that you kind of inherit your parents and your spouse's parents and you take care of them eventually. "
Mindy Kaling
You
Care
Children
" I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance. "
Mindy Kaling
Kind
Skin
Woman
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
Age
You
Racism
" There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume. "
Mindy Kaling
Perfume
Myself
Own
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
Me
Ideas
Comedy
" I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylists detest. For the record, I'm a size 8 - this week, anyway. Many stylists hate that size because I think to them, it shows that I lack the discipline to be an ascetic; or the confident, sassy abandon to be a total fatty hedonist. "
Mindy Kaling
Think
Discipline
Woman
" It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women. Even when I started out on 'The Office' eight years ago, we could write our male characters funny and flawed, but not the women. And now, thankfully, it's completely different. "
Mindy Kaling
Perfect
You
Women
" I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss. "
Mindy Kaling
He
Hair
Care
" As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mouth, I started whistling through it, and as a 32-year-old woman, whistling while you speak in sort of annoying. "
Mindy Kaling
Speak
You
Woman
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
Smart
Sex
See
" 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 can't believe I remember this - he said to them, 'Who's paying the mortgage on this haunted house?' I thought that was really funny. "
Mindy Kaling
Remember
Play
Funny
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
Think
Car
Care
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
Everything
Like
You
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
Romance
People
Loved
" I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures. "
Mindy Kaling
Failures
Think
Just
" In terms of my Indianness, I try not to rely on it nor deny it. When it comes up organically in my writing, we can address it. About five years ago, we wrote this episode of 'The Office,' called 'Diwali,' which seemed like an organic way of using it. "
Mindy Kaling
Way
Office
Like
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
Mom
True
Weird
" Comedy writers have the most fragile egos. "
Mindy Kaling
Egos
Fragile
Most
" It would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together. No. We're in Hollywood trying to be competitive, and get numbers, have our eyes on the Nielsens and things like that. "
Mindy Kaling
Woman
Love
Together
" Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People do laugh when something's shocking, but that is, to me, the absolute fakest of laughs. That's not something that sustains a television series, or a movie, or even 45 minutes of a stand-up set at Carolines. "
Mindy Kaling
Art
Laugh
People
" I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them. "
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Behind
Just
Then
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
Building
Lady
Reading
" My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I've ever had in my life. "
Mindy Kaling
My Life
Single
Mom
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
Men
Women
Hate