Mindy Kaling Quotes About Parents

• I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, White Man, Personality

• When I was a kid, my parents smartly raised us to keep quiet, be respectful to older people, and generally not question adults all that much. I think that's because they were assuming that 99 percent of the time, we'd be interacting with worthy, smart adults... They didn't ever tell me 'Sometimes you will meet idiots who are technically adults and authority figures. You don't have to do what they say.

  Mindy Kaling

  Inteligente, Niños, Pensamiento

• 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.

  Mindy Kaling

  Funny, Birthday, Racism

• I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they were 2, and they have no one to hold accountable. And unfortunately, I don't have that. I have parents who I care about what they think.

  Mindy Kaling

  Writing, Thinking, Car

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

• I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides being a delight to your parents, you will find you have plenty of time later to catch up.

  Mindy Kaling

  Teenager, Kids, Parent

• I’m not complaining about Romance Being Dead - I’ve just described a happy marriage as based on talking about plants and a canceled Ray Romano show and drinking milkshakes: not exactly rose petals and gazing into each other’s eyes at the top of the Empire State Building or whatever. I’m pretty sure my parents have gazed into each other’s eyes maybe once, and that was so my mom could put eyedrops in my dad’s eyes.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mom, Dad, Drinking

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.186, Crown/Archetype

• Si le regalaba a mi madre una bufanda de punto, se preocuparía de que perdiera el tiempo haciendo cosas estúpidas como tejer en lugar de trabajar en el colegio. Regalar a mis padres un objeto de punto hecho en casa era, en realidad, como entregarles un detallado historial de mi holgazanería.

  Mindy Kaling

  Mother, Stupid, School

• My parents were supportive of my creativity but did not have a lot of patience for whimsy with zero production value. They had stuff to do.

  Mindy Kaling

  Zero, Creativity, Parent

• Soy yo quien mira al bebé, sonríe nerviosamente y, como contribución a la charla trivial, anuncia robóticamente a los padres: "Su hijo parece sano y bien cuidado.

  Mindy Kaling

  Children, Parent, Healthy

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.68, Crown/Archetype

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

  Mindy Kaling

  Hard Work, Elderly, People

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

• 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.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Parent, Able

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

• I would be the first to admit that I have incredibly high, ambitious standards for my life and my career, and I've had those my entire life. It's something that was just instilled in me by my parents.

  Mindy Kaling

  Careers, Parent, Ambitious

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

• I'm Indian-American and I think that when I think of myself as being culturally Indian, it had so much to do with when I lived with my parents and was a kid because they would take me to the Diwali festivals. They would take me to the temple, and they would teach me about all the different holidays.

  Mindy Kaling

  Holiday, Kids, Thinking

  "In New Memoir, Mindy Kaling Has More To Say On Life, Love And Showbiz". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

• I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday Night Live' and 'Kids in the Hall,' and things like that. Very early on, my parents realized that I was not going to be an engineer or a doctor. I just don't have those inclinations, at all.

  Mindy Kaling

  Kids, Night, Doctors

  "Mindy Kaling Talks Acting in and Producing THE MINDY PROJECT, Returning to THE OFFICE, GAME OF THRONES Obsessions and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 30, 2012.

• Your fear that your parents will actually kill you for dropping out of college is something that I think a lot of children of immigrants would maybe relate to.

  Mindy Kaling

  Children, College, Thinking

  "In New Memoir, Mindy Kaling Has More To Say On Life, Love And Showbiz". "All Things Considered" with Arun Rath, www.npr.org. September 12, 2015.

• Growing up, I remember my parents feeling a little wary of 'The Simpsons.' This was the late eighties, and there was a wave of articles about TV shows that were bad for America. Then we all started watching it and loved it.

  Mindy Kaling

  Growing Up, Tv Shows, America

  "Check Out Mindy Kaling As Marge Simpson!". www.glamour.com. September 17, 2012.

• Siempre he asumido que mis padres y mis suegros vivirán conmigo cuando sea mayor y tenga hijos. Doy por hecho que así será y que es lo correcto. Es una costumbre muy india: uno hereda a sus padres y a los padres de su cónyuge y, con el tiempo, se hace cargo de ellos.

  Mindy Kaling

  Children, Law, Parent

• Me siento afortunado porque era un empollón, de lo que hablo en el libro, pero tuve éxito académico, así que a través de eso, porque es a lo que mis padres daban mucho valor, tuve una gran infancia porque en cierto modo cumplí las expectativas de ser bueno en la escuela.

  Mindy Kaling

  Book, School, Expectations

• When I was growing up, I didn't do plays in downtown Boston, and my parents weren't putting me in auditions. They never thought, Oh, she has a gift! They never thought of me as an entertainer when I was a young kid.

  Mindy Kaling

  Growing Up, Kids, Boston

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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