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."

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

We always think of a diet with a big groan. But I think diets are fun. I think it is an American pastime for a lot of women.

I kind of killed it in college. You know that saying "big fish in a small pond"? At Dartmouth college, I was freakin' Jaws in a community swimming pool

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

I had to learn a skill set. I think I had the materials to be a good comedy writer.

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.