Mindy Kaling Quotes

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.

I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

I can't stand reading anything that I've said.

We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.

I suppose I sometimes used to act like I wasn't a human being... Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.

Where I Was Wrong

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.

You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.

I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?

There's always something that you go 'I should've done this better, I would've done that.'

There's things that I see that I did on videos when I was younger that I be like, 'Damn, I was bugging.' Champagne Dame, that dude, he was bugging. I don't even know that guy.

When I look back I either feel I did this mistake while shooting or writing. Eventually you try and make sure you do not repeat the same mistake with your next film. I always feel I could have made the film better.

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

When I look back, if I'd played something differently, it might not have gone the way it did. So I don't feel like going back to my twenties and changing anything.

You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.

Sometimes I look back at myself and remember things I used to say, or my hairstyle, and I cringe.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

That's what kids were like then. So I really like the movie [Dude, Where's My Car? ], I think it's genuinely funny, and I wish I hadn't been so arrogant about it. And, of course, I didn't know it was going to be my best work, either.