Mindy Kaling Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actress in high school, or the best athlete. Not only do people not care about any of that the second you graduate, but when you get older, if you reference your successes in high school too much, it actually makes you look kind of pitiful, like some babbling old Tennessee Williams character with nothing else going on in her current life. What I’ve noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it’s so wonderfully fair.

  Mindy Kaling

  Girl, Funny Inspirational, Stars

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)”, p.31, Three Rivers Press

• I just have my characters say my controversial opinions and then hide behind them.

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Opinion, Controversial

• 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, they've 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!

  Mindy Kaling

  Hurt, Character, Work Out

• Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful for women to mentor other women, but it's just as important for women to mentor men and vice-versa. In my line of work, having Greg Daniels be such a great mentor to me is fantastic. Finding a writer's assistant, be it a man or a woman, and encouraging them to think with a feminist perspective, is key.

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Men, Thinking

• Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research for characters I'm writing - but it's basically just nosiness. It also helps me gauge where I'm at: Am I normal?

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Writing, People

• 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

  Funny, Believe, Character

  Interview with Keith Phipps, film.avclub.com. April 4, 2007.

• People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don't see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, "I'm going to hell because I don't really care about the environment and I love to gossip."

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, People, Gossip

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2014.

• 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

  Funny, Writing, Character

• 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

• 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

• As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It’s the reason why people love Harry Potter. Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you’re a young kid, you get attached to these characters.

  Mindy Kaling

  Book, Character, Kids

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Sex in Sweet Valley (And Other Concerns)". Interview with Sara Benincasa, www.bookish.com. November 21, 2011.

• It's weird: I was in a conference room, shouting out story ideas in the voices of different characters, and it was something I had to learn because I'd never been in that atmosphere. But I think I had a quick learning curve, because this is the job I was supposed to have.

  Mindy Kaling

  Jobs, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

• Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character's name be my name.

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Names, Confusion

  "In New Memoir, Mindy Kaling Has More To Say On Life, Love And Showbiz". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

• It doesn't help for you to name a character's first name be Mindy and then be like, "I'm nothing like the character."

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Names, Firsts

  "In New Memoir, Mindy Kaling Has More To Say On Life, Love And Showbiz". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

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