One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It's not like if you're in Los Angeles, where everyone's so actively working on cheerfulness and mental and physical health that if they sense you're down, they shun you. Also, all that sunshine is a cruel joke when you're depressed. In New York, even in your misery, you feel like you belong.


Mindy Kaling

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City o...
ED HELMS
If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
BEAU MIRCHOFF
If you don't see our faces grilled everywhere in Los Angeles and New York and like the big cities, i...
MICHAEL ROSENBAUM
I live in New York, and I love New York as well, but I think Los Angeles is a place where if you hav...
GRETA GERWIG
In Washington, the first thing people tell you is what their job is. In Los Angeles you learn their ...
SIMON HOGGART
New York reminds me a little bit of Canada and my upbringing. Los Angeles is like living in a vacati...
MALIN AKERMAN
When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, ...
ED HELMS
They have it in New York City, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. I just felt Albany needed a place like thi...
ALICE YIP
New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably...
ELLIE KEMPER
When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of.
FRANCESCO TOTTI
We believe we are a team that can succeed in East Los Angeles and New York City, but we also can suc...
DON GARBER
You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it".
CHLOE NEILL
In New York, $1,000-a-square-foot is not a lot of money. In New York you have three times as many pe...
ADRIAN SMITH
People in China say: 'If you love your children, send them to New York. If you hate your childre...
LI NA
Los Angeles is just New York lying down
QUENTIN CRISP
If you are not part of a group in New York, you don't survive, ... You get very depressed.
MARC BIRON
New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most p...
GRIFFIN DUNNE
You always feel like your 18-year-old self in some sense. And that's what walking through New Yo...
JOHN DARNIELLE
In certain parts of the world - where I'm at right now in New York, you're going to pay a wh...
KARRINE STEFFANS
if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL
One's life and passion may be elsewhere, but New York is where you prove if what you think in th...
MIUCCIA PRADA
If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively...
SAMANTHA BEE
Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, mo...
GEORGE CARLIN
In New York, just standing still on the sidewalk is a weird feeling. You have this incessant need to...
ESAI MORALES
I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
RAIN PHOENIX
When you make a little film without stars and not in English, you [just] hope you get into internati...
GAVIN HOOD
Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You
know, when the world suddenl...
KAREN MARIE MONING
Thats the thing about the Internet. You can put a lot of distance between yourself and the person yo...
ELLEN WRIGHT
Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN
We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ...
HECTOR GARCIA
Artists in Europe are really focusing on the Los Angeles art scene. For young people, Los Angeles lo...
CATHERINE GRENIER
There's a vegan and gluten-free bakery called BabyCakes that I love. They've got shops in Ne...
ZOOEY DESCHANEL
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long ca...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER
While I love shooting in New York City, I look forward to filming season six in Los Angeles.
DONALD TRUMP
People are more laid back and live life a little slower in Winchester. In New York (and now Los Ange...
MATT LONG
If you take out New York City, New York State's economy is right down there with Mississippi and Lou...
GREG LEROY
Nobody called on this one like they do if there's a new health regulation that they feel is unfair.
GARY GORDON
Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows i...
STANLEY KUBRICK
Dad, youre so far off the mark I can't even...Lincoln hasn't pressured me at all!" I grabbed my bag ...
JESSICA SHIRVINGTON
New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten ...
JOHN STEINBECK
You go to Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Chicago, and you see Latinos everywhere; they are invo...
THALIA
I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.
CAREY MULLIGAN
I considered moving to New York or Los Angeles, but they're two of the hardest places to move to...
DAVE KEUNING
Boulder was not the small town I had expected. It is a vivacious community of sophisticated people, ...
KIMBAL MUSK
There's no radio station in New York City where you can hear Sinatra sing 'New York, New York.' On X...
HUGH PANERO
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the...
BARBARA KRUGER
In New York, there are so many potholes, they're like craters on the moon. That's another tr...
JIMMY FALLON
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his he...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn&#...
KATE MARA
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his he...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Believe in your abilities.Your negative thoughts about yourself send a signal throughout the world t...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
I love the life in New York. New York has an excitement about it. You have so many people, so many d...
PAULA CREAMER
In America, we're kind of lazy. But in New York, it's one of those places where you see the ...
KID CUDI
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and...
FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK
I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressin...
JOHN MALKOVICH
I didn't worry about leaving the fast lane - I was just so consumed with my baby that it seemed ...
SISSY SPACEK
What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just...
CHASKE SPENCER
I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art ...
SAM TAYLOR-WOOD
But ultimately I think that you need to go to either New York for theater or Los Angeles for televis...
FRAN DRESCHER
In New York, where providers operate very independently and generally belong to a number of overlapp...
BLAINE BOS
There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical t...
OLIVIA THIRLBY
Nobody knows the rules about tipping. And even when you think you know the rules, they change when y...
LAURA POWELL
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER
Halloween is bigger than Christmas in America. I've experienced it in New York, Los Angeles and ...
RHYS DARBY
Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking...
SLOANE CROSLEY
I don't know Hollywood very well. I've never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I ca...
MONICA BELLUCCI
If you live in New York City, you will never be bored for a second in your life.
ALEX REZAEV
I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A...
RICH SOMMER
I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn't like. I ...
ERIN GRAY
In June 2002, I had just finished 'Laurel Canyon' and decided to move back to Los Angeles af...
LISA CHOLODENKO
I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sens...
JAMES CAAN
I'm one with New York, and New York is one with me. I grew up there; there's no escaping it. We're l...
ADRIAN GRENIER
New York has cut fees more than other districts. Not that fees are lower in New York, but they cut t...
LYNN LOPUCKI
I think the process of 'SNL' is still pretty formal. You make an audition tape, your agent s...
NOEL WELLS
Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha!
JEFF KINNEY
One thing about Los Angeles is it feels like it's not new. It feels like it's already been b...
ALBERT BROOKS
People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with...
AUDREY TAUTOU
We like to think of New York as the nation's most cosmopolitan city, a place in which the independen...
PAUL GOLDBERGER
New York is the capital of the world. If you want to hit a symbol, you hit New York. It's also the c...
HARVEY KUSHNER
As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.
MARIAN KEYES
So much tension around here in New York. They want to fine you for every little thing you do.
LATRELL SPREWELL
When I realized I was depressed, then I started reading up about it. When I read that one in four pe...
DEEPIKA PADUKONE
You know what, it doesn't matter where are in the world, all the club owner cares about is whether y...
JANET PLANET
If you're gay and live in New York and don't go to gym, eventually they come for you.
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS
I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. Yo...
ALEX TURNER
Other than friends and family, my favorite things are New York and stand-up. I love doing comedy in ...
AZIZ ANSARI
But I can tell you that the New York that I see now is not the New York that we grew up in. It's...
TEA LEONI
Essentially what's going to determine how you succeed in New York is how people feel about the s...
DANNY MEYER
When every piece of furniture and your underwear are taken by the bank, when you lose your house in ...
AL GOLDSTEIN
The bottom line on all of this is that, increasingly, election systems are so sloppy in New York tha...
JOHN FUND
Most of the writers in TV are from L.A. or New York, and those are places where people are cynical a...
CHRIS PRATT
Obviously, Miami is a different way of life than New York. My grittier street songs are definitely i...
JOE CARTAGENA
New York City is not going to be cowed by the terrorists, ... Make no mistake about that. We're not ...
MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally r...
LIAM NEESON
Parents get feelings about nannies and you need to trust that. They are very accurate. If you feel l...
BECKY KAVANAGH
You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right, it's the best thing in the world. W...
KEITH SWEAT
Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV.
When you move to New York, especially, you feel like you need to be something.
CASEY WILSON
It's been fascinating working on a set in New York. Just to be in the thick of it is really inte...
JESSICA COLLINS

More Mindy Kaling

Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of...
MINDY KALING
Almost every college playwright or sketch or improv comedian was sort of aware of Christopher Durang...
MINDY KALING
There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
MINDY KALING
I simply regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world created therein has di...
MINDY KALING
I especially like eavesdropping on women my age. Besides being titillating, it also helps me gauge w...
MINDY KALING
I love that 'Much Ado About Nothing,' passionate, smart fighting. I love fighting with guys,...
MINDY KALING
What I'd really like to write is a romantic comedy. This is my favorite kind of movie. I feel al...
MINDY KALING
I fall into that nebulous, quote-unquote, normal American woman size that legions of fashion stylist...
MINDY KALING
When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that&...
MINDY KALING
I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at...
MINDY KALING
I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, '...
MINDY KALING
Catharsis isn't art. You can't rely on catharsis to get a laugh. Because guess what? People ...
MINDY KALING
I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident w...
MINDY KALING
I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the...
MINDY KALING
I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our ...
MINDY KALING
People take things at face value on social media. Earnestness is the assumption.
MINDY KALING
I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream...
MINDY KALING
Fast food is hugely important in the life of a comedy writer. All we do is order in, and what we'...
MINDY KALING
It would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a s...
MINDY KALING
I was always a silent comedy nerd. I would stay up late and sneak downstairs to watch 'Saturday ...
MINDY KALING
The overlap in the Venn diagram of things that men hate for women to wear and the things that I love...
MINDY KALING
Sometimes I eavesdrop on people. I could rationalize it - oh, this is good anthropological research ...
MINDY KALING
When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, bu...
MINDY KALING
I had these kind of unrealistic expectations that were fueled by romantic comedies, and it has both ...
MINDY KALING
I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head...
MINDY KALING
The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It's something you don't see dramatize...
MINDY KALING
I've always assumed that my parents and my in-laws would live with me when I get older and have ...
MINDY KALING
It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time...
MINDY KALING
One friend with whom you have a lot in common is better than three with whom you struggle to find th...
MINDY KALING
My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indi...
MINDY KALING
I used to forget that I was an Indian woman. I would even forget that I was a woman. I don't thi...
MINDY KALING
You should never have to say hello or goodbye. Even at work sometimes, and I know this is very unpop...
MINDY KALING
When I was a little kid, I wrote this play about all these characters living in a haunted house. The...
MINDY KALING
Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romanti...
MINDY KALING
I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever...
MINDY KALING
This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. ...
MINDY KALING
What I didn't need was some hot-and-cold long-distance flake wasting my time. It hurt my feelings an...
MINDY KALING
That's what I've noticed about being 32: it is a lot of women and a lot of boys our age.
MINDY KALING
I really think guys only need two pairs of shoes. A nice pair of black shoes and a pair of Chuck Tay...
MINDY KALING
I'm someone who loves romance. I always have loved it. Most people who grew up as nerds, as I wa...
MINDY KALING
Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.
MINDY KALING
..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the ...
MINDY KALING
I also became familiar with an entirely new category of people: the unhappily married person. They a...
MINDY KALING
I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care i...
MINDY KALING
There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and ...
MINDY KALING
The chorus of “Jack and Diane” is: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gon...
MINDY KALING
Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, mis...
MINDY KALING
I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to ...
MINDY KALING
In real life, shouldn't a wedding be an awesome party you throw with your great pal, in the presence...
MINDY KALING
The Internet also makes it extraordinarily difficult for me to focus. One small break to look up exa...
MINDY KALING
I just want ambitious teenagers to know it is totally fine to be quite, observant kids. Besides bein...
MINDY KALING
If someone called me chubby, it would no longer be something that kept me up late at night. Being ca...
MINDY KALING
All women love Colin Firth: Mr. Darcy, Mark Darcy, George VI—at this point he could play the Craig...
MINDY KALING
Another old saying is that revenge is a dish best served cold. But it feels best served piping hot, ...
MINDY KALING
This book will take you two days to read. Did you even see the cover? It’s mostly pink. If you’r...
MINDY KALING
There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes
MINDY KALING
It makes me cry because it means that fewer and fewer people are believing it's cool to want what I ...
MINDY KALING
Everyone has a moment when they discover they love Amy Poehler.
MINDY KALING
Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demograp...
MINDY KALING
If I’m at a party where I’m not enjoying myself, I will put some cookies in my jacket pocket and...
MINDY KALING
I don't want to hear about the endless struggles to keep sex exciting, or the work it takes to plan ...
MINDY KALING
We never needed best friend gear because I guess with real friends you don't have to make it officia...
MINDY KALING
Later, when you're grown up, you realize you never really get to hang out with your family. You pret...
MINDY KALING
I’m only marginally qualified to be giving advice at all. My body mass index is certainly not idea...
MINDY KALING
As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one...
MINDY KALING
I don’t think it should be socially acceptable for people to say they are “bad with names.” No...
MINDY KALING
In my mind, the sexiest thing in the world is the feeling that you’re wanted.
MINDY KALING
I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pie...
MINDY KALING
Teenage girls, please don’t worry about being super popular in high school, or being the best actr...
MINDY KALING
You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge...
MINDY KALING
I think as humans, no one remembers their successes, everyone just remembers their failures.
MINDY KALING
Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And...
MINDY KALING
I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to differe...
MINDY KALING
As a kid it's adorable to have a gap in your teeth. But then, because of the shifting in my mout...
MINDY KALING
As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter....
MINDY KALING
I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL&#...
MINDY KALING
I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven&...
MINDY KALING
Haley and I would talk for hours about which member of 'N Sync we'd want to marry. After long delibe...
MINDY KALING
I'm a role model now. ... I want to be a better person because I don't want to disappoint those girl...
MINDY KALING
The point is, it only traumatized me because I had the time to be traumatized. I want to be so famou...
MINDY KALING
I will leave you with one last piece of advice, which is: If you’ve got it, flaunt it. And if you ...
MINDY KALING
Until I realized: this long expanse of free time to rekindle friendships is not real. We will never ...
MINDY KALING
My version of an Irish exit has an air of deception to it, because it includes my asking loudly, “...
MINDY KALING
I'm a love-it-or-hate-it person. I don't waffle.
MINDY GROSSMAN
I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after pu...
MINDY MCCREADY
I believe in accessibility. I believe in honesty and a culture that supports that. And you can't...
MINDY GROSSMAN
There's a pure and simple business case for diversity: Companies that are more diverse are more ...
MINDY GROSSMAN
Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too.
MINDY STERLING
I've always had a philosophy that position doesn't define power. Impact defines power. What ...
MINDY GROSSMAN
The votes have been counted twice if not more. It's a misrepresentation. He wanted a hand count, now...
MINDY TUCKER
If you throw the pebble in the pond and the rings start circulating that much wider, you've done...
MINDY GROSSMAN
Curses. Jesus. It took all kinds. There wasn't anything to a curse but words. Just like blessings an...
MINDY MEJIA
I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as...
MINDY GROSSMAN
Live free or die! But once you think about it, you're angry at yourself, not Doctor Bennett. He's th...
MINDY HANEY
More U.S. companies realize that climate change is an enormous business issue that they need to mana...
MINDY LUBBER
In a world like this, you pay it forward, 'cause more than likely you didn't deserve it when you got...
MINDY MCGINNIS
I fed a squirrel a piece of a sandwich. I just couldn't get away. I started climbing the park bench.
MINDY HUTCHCROFT
They were so thrilled when I said I’m a virgin,” I blurt out. “I’m so fucking stupid.”
MINDY MCGINNIS
Why me, then?” I ask. “Why not Branley? She’s way hotter and was just as drunk as I was.” MINDY MCGINNIS Typically, we refer issues to the prosecutor when we find instances of misappropriation of funds, so...
MINDY CHAMBERS
I've not been afraid to take risks, be resolute and passionate about purpose, and inspire people...
MINDY GROSSMAN
My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me kno...
MINDY MCCREADY
What he does not think is helpful to the country is misstatements and the spread of misinformation a...
MINDY TUCKER
Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interacti...
MINDY GROSSMAN
If he was paralyzed, we'd have to put in ramps and have things altered for wheelchair access; you ca...
MINDY HAMMOND
It's early on a beautiful winter morning. The house is quiet. The sun is shining. I'm thankful. I'm ...
MINDY LEVY
When animals make a stupid mistake, you laugh at them. A cat misjudges a leap. A dog looks overly qu...
MINDY MCGINNIS
We did really well tonight, we played very well as a team. No one person really stood out, they pass...
MINDY EBMEIER
I don't want an alcoholic or drug addict to think he's the only one in that situation.
MINDY GEHR
It is really so easy. Our community has completed one Share the Care, and two are ongoing right now.
MINDY GRIBBLE
Using this model, or something like it, helps to ease the load for everyone.
MINDY GRIBBLE
We would save up our money, then we'd ride our bikes to the hardware store and buy nails.
MINDY HALL
Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that G...
MINDY MCCREADY
His age group isn't buying country music. Mine is.
MINDY MCCREADY
Hospitals are beginning to recognize the direct relationship between the environment and the quality...
MINDY PENNYBACKER
But boys will be boys, our favorite phrase that excuses so many things, while the only thing ...
MINDY MCGINNIS
Everyone thinks if you fix a male dog it will lower his aggression, but most of the biters are femal...
MINDY MCGINNIS
Art lovers collect paintings that demonstrate some form of imperceptible complexity. Abstract images...
MINDY FORDHAM, THE WAKING WORLD