"Woody Allen is really the ultimate. I love that he believed in himself enough to do what he did. And I have that same feeling - that there's nobody that looks like me in movies, nobody would cast me as a romantic lead, but I want to do it and I feel confident that I can."

"People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas."

"My dad's whole family is in Madras and I was born in America so we didn't have that big Indian community. I don't really have anything interesting to say about it. When I talk about it people are like, 'meh, let's talk about something else.'"

"I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world."

"The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish."

"Wisdom principle 8 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 87."

"Wisdom principle 61 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 12."

"Wisdom principle 97 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 5."