And when she’s at the door, Mark stops her and he says, I like you, very much. Just as you are.It’s ridiculous that I love this so much. It’s so simple. It’s not a witty, perfectly phrased, Ephron-y d...
And this actress, this poor skinny actress who so clearly lost weight to play the likable lead, has to say things like ‘shut up you guys! I love cheesecake! If I want to eat an entire cheesecake, I wi...
Also, I find it extremely impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks’s Landslide, especially the lyric: I’ve been afraid of changing, because I’ve built my life around you. I think a good test to...
All the humiliation was worth it for the one shining moment when Amy Poehler proposed we walk a few blocks together, late at night, in New York City in 2006.
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. It forces you to think about what your strengths reall...
Stay in school and be a respectful and hardworking wallflower, and go to an accredited non-online university
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 ma...
We loved reenacting what we saw. The Church Lady’s catchphrases were our catchphrases, and we repeated them until my mother said, exasperated: Please stop saying ‘Isn’t that special?’ in that strange...
One got the other hooked on Breaking Bad and if either watches it without the other, they’re dead meat.
[…]Frisbee people won’t let it go. My theory is that this is because there’s a huge overlap between people who are good at Frisbee and people who do Teach for America.
With no music to listen to, I just biked around in circles talking to myself like a kid on the cover of a Robert Cormier young adult novel, circling around puzzled Jewish families walking back to thei...
Who is this invisible antiterrorist? It’s me, Mindy Kaling. I was hiding behind Cee Lo’s fur coat, and no one saw me.
Which is why you need the tiniest bit of bravery. 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 calm...
What is fascinating to me is that divorced people tend to be the least depressing or depressed people I know. They’re all unburdened and cleansed, and the wiser for it. This is the case even if they d...
We clung to each other with blind loyalty, like Lord Voldemort and his snake, Nagini.
We clung to each other with blind loyalty, like Lord Voldemort and his snake, Nagini. I, of course, was Nagini. If you messed with one of us, you knew you messed with both of us, and Voldemort was goi...
WHAT I’M ASKING for is not that much. I just want a boyfriend who is sweet and trustworthy. That’s it. He doesn’t need to have a perfect body or look like George Clooney. I want a guy who wants to cur...
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.
This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’re reading this book every night for months, something is not right.
They say the best revenge is living well. I say it's acid in the face -- who will love them now?