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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.

Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler.

We did not stage kiss because we didn't know any better. It was just lights, camera, tongue-dance.

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

Of course, everyone wants to be mythologized in a great way.

People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.

Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like.

It wasn't until later that I realized Paul's quietness was a result of his confidence. He didn't need to shout to be heard.

I'm a smart enough person to know that I don't want everyone to be cookie-cutter versions of the nine guys who wear Converse sneakers.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

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

I have an underdog spirit in me, and now it feels weird to kind of get my own way more often than not.

I always wanted the reboot of Ghostbusters to be four girl-ghostbusters.

Albums that remind me of my childhood happiness make me incredibly sad now.

If I sound bitter, that's because I'm still a little bitter.

As you can see, when I write, I like to look like I'm recovering from tuberculosis.

Is Dwight really like that in real life?" to which I respond: "Oh, no, Rainn isn't like Dwight. Dwight is an angel next to Rainn. Rainn is a demon.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

Live performance really terrifies me. I haven't done it, really, in years. I think that's why I retired from my brief career in stand-up.

B.J. and I watched Lost on his portable DVD player, which is just about the most 2007 thing you can do.

Die in a good way, obviously.

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

A not 100-percent-perfect-looking-in-every-way female? You might as well film a dead squid decaying on a beach somewhere for two hours.

Will (now renamed "Trouble Don't Pick Up" in my phone) came to L.A. with the president and asked me to dinner.

I have the right to life, liberty and chicken wings.

Even though Mavis was my secret friend, she is the only one I hope I see again. She's the only one I wonder about. I hope she wonders about me too.

I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists.

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

Personally, I, Mindy Kaling want to spend like 80 percent of my life hanging out with women.

There is a certain type of greasy hair that you get only when you are writing with no breaks.

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

People seem to be having these awesome sex lives and I'm just trying to find a life partner to go apple picking with. What's wrong with me?

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.

Soul mates is what you aim for, but soup snakes is what you get sometimes.

In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you're wanted.

I'm so much more confident and sexy at thirty-eight than I ever was when I was eighteen or twenty-four ...

Cause that's all I want. A sweet, mature, normal, loving guy, with no baggage. And who has an absolutely enormous penis.

Bennifer was so big it was as though two people had never been in love before, and they had discovered it.

If I can muster up any allure in my life, at this stage, I wouldn't mind doing that.

No matter how good you have it, it's cool to want more.

I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.

Twitter is so short, it's safe. I don't want my bosses to be like, 'Hey, your script is due and we saw you wrote four blog pages.'

Which I would write on Sunday afternoons sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor with no pants on.

Full-on All-Night Sex-a-thon is also the name of my debut hip-hop album.

I never knew you could have someone in your life who was pretty much on the same page about essentially everything.

I think that's the lesson of this story: you never know what is going to happen.

Bribes and boy bands. That's all you need to be a babysitter.

I have such a rich fantasy life, I can't help it. I do make up a lot of romantic stories in my head.

My mom always used to say, "You can't say I love you before you can say I." And I think that sort of makes sense.

I'll get you, you clique-y sons of bitches, I thought. You know what? I never did get them. I'm just realizing now. I should totally still get them.

Neither of us gets to be the princess all the time.

No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out.

If you have never seen a flight attendant praying, I hope you never do, because it is one the scariest things in the whole world. Scarier

No food is as delicious as food you eat standing a foot away from a trash can. Ask any possum.

Why is everyone trying to tell me that when you get older it gets better?

People who are good at stand-up, they sort of seem to have to do it. Something within them makes them have to go on the road.

My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.

The result of my not caring so much about what I say allows me to care more about how I say it. P. 4

I was just a friendly thirty-four-year-old TV actress looking for a boyfriend who didn't have a neck tattoo.

To put it kindly, I am a very talkative, social person. To put it less kindly, I'm a flibbertigibbet, which is what my frenemy Rainn Wilson calls me.

I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has different rules than my regular human world.

I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences.

My dad is a very snappy dresser; he gets all his stuff tailored. He's an architect, so he's a little more artistically minded.

I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge where I'm at in comparison.

I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Taylors.

If my childhood, teens, and twenties were about wanting people to like me, now I want people to know me. So,

The truth is, it's hard to get people to like you, but it's even harder to keep people liking you.

There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes

I don't read them; I just hit "accept." iTunes may own my ovaries, for all I know.

I cannot imagine a life more boring and a more time-consuming obsession than being preoccupied with watching what I eat. I

And that's all show business is, really. Transitioning panics.

Skinny foodie, get away from me.

I'm not into red carpet looks where it's clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.

I knew the truth, which is if someone really wants to see you, they always find a way. Always. That

I guess I'm the kind of person who likes to be part of something so much that I won't care if the something is bad.

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.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

That's why every doctor on TV is a drug addict, a sociopath, or just plain mega-rude. Doctors can do anything they want!

I know many friends who loved their sororities. I wasn't traumatized. I was just bored.

Every kid wants approval, but my desire to be well liked was central to my personality.

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

One stipulation to my borrowing your clothes is that you have to have worn the item at least once before I borrow it. I'm not a monster.

I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester and smother it with love until it either loves you back or dies.

Being known is really fun, extremely strange, and not very important. This

Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos.

Cat Hats: Sixteen Paper Hats to Put on Your Unsuspecting Kitty.

I would love to have Snoop Dogg waiting in my office in a cupcake-print suit to tell all my problems to. Wouldn't we all?

He was so popular you could barely look at him without being blinded by cool.

Doug appeared, clad in an Affliction waffle-knit tee and True Religion jeans. It was 2006, so this was a sign of great success.

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

I am an incredibly impatient person.

Learning about new hot sauces is the least expensive way to improve my quality of life.

I really ought to send him some money, but, honestly, he doesn't need it. He has that sweet Despicable Me money.

I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a big premium on.

Even in my revenge fantasy where all I do is exercise, I can still do only twenty-five pull-ups. Pull-ups are tough, no joke.

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion

The expectation that TV women need to be more likeable than men is bullshit and in need of a change.

I've always had that chip on my shoulder. I've just always been super hard on myself.