Top 300 Mindy Kaling Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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2. “That’s what she said.”

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3. “There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”

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

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5. “I’m too excited to sleep!”

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6. “One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find things to talk about.”

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7. “I am an incredibly impatient person.”

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

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9. “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.”

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10. “Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, straight out of the oven of outrage. My opinion? Take care of revenge right away.”

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

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12. “True love is singing karaoke ‘under pressure’ and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.”

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13. “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.”

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

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15. “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.”

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16. “I’m the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.”

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17. “In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.”

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18. “Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.”

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19. “If I’m going to be a mess, I might as well be a hot mess, right?”

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20. “If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And if you don’t got it? Flaunt it. ‘Cause what are we even doing here if we’re not flaunting it?”

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21. “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.”

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22. “I would say that my mother is the single biggest role model in my life, but that term doesn’t seem to encompass enough when I use it about her. She was the love of my life.”

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

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

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25. “Listen, my body is attracted to your body but when you speak it makes my brain angry.”

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26. “If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and leave without saying good-bye.”

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27. “Write your own part. It is the only way I’ve gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands.”

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28. “There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while I’m talking about why I’m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art.”

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29. “Hey, a disclaimer about me: I’m rude.”

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30. “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?”

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31. “We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don’t have to make it official. It just is.”

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32. “I have a personality defect where I REFUSE to see myself as an underdog.”

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33. “People’s reaction to me is sometimes “Uch, I just don’t like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great.” But it’s not that I think I’m so great. I just don’t hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don’t let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don’t hate themselves. So that’s why you need to be a little bit brave.”

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34. “You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it’s acid in the face – who will love them now?”

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

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36. “I love talking about clothes with women; it’s like a code because women dress for women.”

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37. “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.”

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38. “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!”

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39. “I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.”

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40. “People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you’re succeeding. People do not get scared when you’re failing. It calms them. But when you’re winning, it makes them feel like they’re losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should’ve tried to do something too, but now it’s too late. And since they didn’t, they want to stop you. You can’t let them.”

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41. “Skinny foodie, get away from me.”

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42. “That’s my advice to people. You can’t get hung up on thinking, “Am I the victim in this situation?” No, I’m in charge of it.”

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43. “I have crushes on celebrities or people I meet or see in the coffee shop, and every day I fall in love with three people simply because they said one funny thing or appeared to me in a certain way.”

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44. “My relationship with my mom is really the single most profound relationship that I’ve ever had in my life.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “If you believe in yourself and work hard, you have a fighting shot at having your dreams come true.”

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47. “People talk about mumblecore but I prefer bumblecore, hyper-realistic bee movies about how bees really are.”

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

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49. “I can’t have a big breakfast or a big lunch because I get very lethargic, and then I get really cranky. I eat, but I have to eat small, healthful amounts of food.”

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50. “I don’t ever remember being able to debate with my parents. Even though I thought of myself as a very bright kid, I couldn’t be vocal in that way.”

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