Latest Mindy Kaling Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm actually an impatient person. I'm very suited for television because with the process, it's six weeks from the time you come up with an episode until when it airs. We can't drag it out that long. With film, and this is not a profound observation or an original one; it can go on endlessly unless the movie's like incredibly topical. That's the challenge for me, as an impatient person who wants see things come to life. ... I mean, it's just this feeling I get when I see a movie I love.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mean, Long, Profound

  Source: deadline.com

• The way that TV is set up is very helpful for when a show comes to an end because as an actor, you've got acting, but as a showrunner you still get to edit for three months and after that ends you get to do a sound mix. So, as a writer-performer in television, it's a very nurturing, gradual environment to say goodbye to a show.

  Mindy Kaling

  Goodbye, Acting, Helpful

  Source: deadline.com

• I've been working in television for so long, since 2004, and I just worked nonstop throughout that time and I've learned so much. I've definitely done that 10,000 hours. I know the format really well and I feel comfortable in it. I'm excited about going into something I'm not so comfortable in, which is film.

  Mindy Kaling

  Long, Done, Film

  Source: deadline.com

• Whenever I wanted to talk to anyone on the East Coast, it was way too late. Living three hours behind was one thing I complained about. The other thing, of course, was just that there were no seasons. I would complain about that too. Just tons of complaining, man, early on. I can't believe I'm still friends with the people I was friends with when I first started in LA.

  Mindy Kaling

  Believe, Men, People

  Source: film.avclub.com

• When I was a kid, I would always write down lists of my favorite things and keep them in my wallet, just in case someone ever needed to know what my 10 favorite foods were, or my 10 favorite actors.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Kids, My Favorite

  Source: film.avclub.com

• Looking back six years ago when I had just come from 'The Office' to 'The Mindy Project' and what I was trying to say back then. I feel like we don't revisit our younger idealistic selves, you just get in this pattern of churning these episodes out. Now I was like, "Let's try and get in my mind back then," because my life personally has changed so much, too. I just thought, "What was I trying to say? And now can I make it look like it was all part of one larger story."

  Mindy Kaling

  Mind, Trying, Changed

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• 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' .

  Mindy Kaling

  Emotional, Journey, Trying

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• What Mindy has in common with a lot of women in their mid-30s is that she's obsessed with marriage. It's the entire premise of the 'The Mindy Project'. The pilot is her wanting to get married and her ruining her ex-boyfriend's wedding. For someone who fetishizes marriage so much, we're like, "OK, let's give it to her and let's see if it's as good as she thinks it's going to be." That's been the fun of the beginning part of this season is showing her what the challenges are of being married.

  Mindy Kaling

  Fun, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• When you only do 10 episodes for a final season, every character and all of her interactions in every storyline have so much more import because it's the last time we're going to do it. It's been really helpful saying, "OK, where do we want each of these characters to end?" We have 10 episodes to do it and working backward from that, I kind of envy my friends who have always been on a cable network because this is really that great benefit of doing it this way.

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Envy, Helpful

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• We have this saying, and it's been very useful when a series, 'The Mindy Project' goes for longer than a hundred episodes, which is Mindy character can never get what she wants when she wants it. We enjoyed it because it felt very real to her character to make a big impulsive move and it seems like she has everything, this instant family, a guy she loves and then there's a moment of panic.

  Mindy Kaling

  Real, Moving, Character

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

• I think women in general like men that don't give them the thing that we want. We want a chase.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  "Mindy Kaling on Danny's D*ck Behavior and Why Successful Women Are Drawn to Men Like Him" by Laura Beck, www.cosmopolitan.com. October 4, 2016.

• They talk about how men are chasers, but women are just like that too. At least a lot of the women that I know, who tend to be ambitious, professionally driven women, they love that. Like seeking something professional that is hard to get, I think they feel the same way about men.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, Thinking, Ambitious

  "Mindy Kaling on Danny's D*ck Behavior and Why Successful Women Are Drawn to Men Like Him" by Laura Beck, October 4, 2016.

• I love telling press the designers I'm wearing, especially if they are emerging. That's exciting to me, supporting talented newcomers.

  Mindy Kaling

  Designer, Newcomers, Exciting

  "Mindy Kaling's Favorite Designer and What's Next for Her Character" by Nandini D'Souza, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 5, 2016.

• Elizabeth Kennedy is so chic. Her gowns have such structure, I feel like a work of art.

  Mindy Kaling

  Art, Gowns, Structure

  "Mindy Kaling's Favorite Designer and What's Next for Her Character" by Nandini D'Souza, www.harpersbazaar.com. July 5, 2016.

• I think that it's insidious to be spending more of your time reflecting and talking about panels, and talking more and more in smart ways about your otherness, rather than doing the hard work of your job.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Smart, Hard Work

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

• I'm an A student. I'm addicted to feedback, and I want to please people. That's sort of how I've gotten to where I am.

  Mindy Kaling

  People, Want, Students

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

• I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these other things - you know, people's demands of you reflecting on your otherness. And for this white critic to say, "I don't understand why she doesn't do that" - and you're like, "It's because I'm running a show on a major network and I want the show to continue" - and to sort of guilt me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Running, Thinking, White

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

• I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms.

  Mindy Kaling

  Views, People, Looks

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

• I'm an actor and a writer and a showrunner and I edit my show. ... I have a job that three people usually have, and I have it in one person. And the idea that the critic thought that I had this excess of time for which I could go to, like, panels or write essays was just so laughable to me.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Writing, Ideas

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

• I notice that a little bit at The Office, with, like, an actor: If I decided there'd be a certain way in the script, it would still seem open-ended, whereas ... if I was a man I would not have seen that.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, Office, Actors

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

• When I have time to sit and reflect on the different situations that I face every day, I'll be able to speak more succinctly about the challenges as a woman.

  Mindy Kaling

  Challenges, Different, Able

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

• There's obviously instances where I perceive sexism in my job. ... I think that the sort of sexism that I see has been one that's a little bit like a gentler form of sexism, but still a little bit debilitating, which is that when, as a producer and a writer, whether it was at The Office or [at The Mindy Project], if I make a decision, it'll still seem like it's up for debate.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Thinking, Office

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

• I write a little bit about what it's like to be a female boss in my book [ Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?] and the things I've noticed about that, but by and large, it's just a tough job in general.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Book, Writing

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

• I'd rather be like Odysseus than someone who was handed everything.

  Mindy Kaling

  Odysseus

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.

• I work so hard and so many hours, and I've done that for years and years and years.

  Mindy Kaling

  Years, Done, Hours

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". www.wbur.org. October 16, 2014.