For heaven’s sake, if you don’t know someone’s name, just pretend you do. Do that thing everyone else does, where you vaguely say, “Nice to see you!” and make weak eye contact.
Why didn’t you talk about whether women are funny or not? I just felt that by commenting on that in any real way, it would be tacit approval of it as a legitimate debate, which it isn’t.
Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler.
I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.
Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?
Also, chubby people can never truly pull off ethereal the same way skinny people can never be jolly.
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.
Future hipsters will love me ironically.
My dad is funny in his own way, and so is my brother, but in terms of legitimately making a lot of people laugh, that’s my mom. I inherit my sense of comedy from her.
I didn’t completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.
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.
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!
Best friend isn’t a person, it’s a tier.
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.”
Sometimes I aid into the confusion by having my character’s name be my name.
I found it to be smooth sailing – 100 percent smooth sailing my whole career.
I hate gowns. It’s a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don’t put a big premium on.
I have a whole system down for returning online shopping: a tape gun, a printer for return labels. That has replaced traditional window shopping in my life, as I’ve gotten busier.
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.
My whole childhood was like: Work hard, be quiet, respect elderly people, respect your parents, and just be unobtrusive.