I am a super-confident writer, and as a joke writer and as an actress, I'm like, 'I want to go head-to-head with every person.' I am an Indian woman and I'm a kind of double minority in this world.

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.

The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exactly how almond milk is made, and four hours later I'm reading about the Donner Party and texting all my friends: DID YOU GUYS KNOW ABOUT THE DONNER PARTY AND HOW MESSED UP THAT WAS? TEXT ME BACK SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT!

The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who's my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

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

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

True love is singing karaoke 'under pressure' and letting the other person sing the Freddie Mercury part.