552 Quotes by Mindy Kaling

I don’t want to be skinny. I’m constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don’t beat myself up over it.

Don’t fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.

I don’t need marriage. I don’t need anyone to take care of all my needs and desires. I can take care of them myself now.

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.

Best friend isn’t a person, it’s a tier.

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.

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion.

Every day, I wake up and I’m like, “Oh, I’m the star of my own show that has my name in it and I get to write it and hire actors that I’ve loved for such a long time!” It’s amazing!

Every actor pretends that they hate sex scenes, and the truth is that they all love them, and they’re lying.