Mindy Kaling Quotes

I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.

What happens if parents pick an embryo thinking they're getting a boy who will grow up to be like former Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, but instead when the child grows up, he wants to be poet?

No one likes a pushy parent, and, 'pride' being one of the seven deadly sins, I needed to tread very carefully when creating a show about my eldest son, Tom, better known as Peter Parker and even better known as Marvel's new 'Spider-Man.'

I want more stand-up comics in prime time. It's great for every comedian.

If my parents really understood how much I've learned that I could never learn in school, they'd be very proud. Instead, I'm still their crazy kid, sagging his pants and dancing around on the laptop.

My mother was really against it when I said I wanted to make films. She said that I should be a civil servant because that was safe, and it had security. But my mother was always very proud of my movies and would give videocassettes of them to all the neighbours.

If, later on, my daughter wants to be in a girl group, then I think I am going to oppose.

I loved being my father's audience and watching him in front of the mirror as he talked to himself made up like a clown.

If a parent keeps on saying that, 'my kid is not understanding me at all,' he or she needs to look inside and ask, what wrong am I doing that my child is unable to understand me?

My kids still think that, you know, other kids' parents are cooler than I am.

My parents were very encouraging in having us get into the arts, whereas I have a lot of friends that didn't have that.

Especially for Haitian immigrant parents, being a musician is not a job.

Although my parents both liked her, they just didn't approve of a same-sex relationship. Nowadays, people say that you must let children be what they are, but when I was growing up, the parents defined the child - and my parents had a definite vision of how they wanted me to be.

Moms don't just sit there cooking everyday and aren't always there to greet their kids at the school bus.

I love my dad and respect him and miss him, but I never hung around my father that much because my dad was a lawyer and engineer, and he really didn't understand what I was about. I was supposed to go to law school at UCLA - I was admitted - and instead of going to law school, I went on the road with a band.

I hope to do the 'Letterman' show, 'Leno,' all that.

If your child has something creative they really want to do, it's up to you, their parent, to help make that happen.

My mom is very practical, and she originally wanted me to have something to fall back on. She was a little fearful of my becoming an actor because she didn't see it as a way to make a living. My dad, who was born and raised in Cuba, was really cool with it.

I have sisters who act, and I'd always seen it as their thing. I was never in the school plays like them - I wanted to be a painter.

Mum snuck me into speech and drama classes and into the National Youth Theatre and said I was going on a summer camp if Dad asked.

I would probably confess that I was the greatest disappointment of my mother's life, but my father only admired his son's moxie, drive, hustle, and wherewithal to pursue his dreams no matter how I achieve them.

My parents did their best - that earns a lot of forgiveness. But they say children grow up in spite of their parents, and I think I did.

I think our first heroes with whom we discover flaws are our parents.

Humour is learned behaviour, and I know exactly why I learned to be funny. I did it from a very early age. My dad was a hilarious man, and the way we interacted was being silly together. It was a way to hold his attention.

I grew up watching 'The Tonight Show' and Jimmy Fallon on 'SNL.'