Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“I mean, I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There’s photos from our high school musicals, and I’m comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar’s costume. There are musicals I didn’t even know had beggars — and I managed to play them. I played a street urchin in Evita. In City of Angels, I played a Los Angeles hobo. Whatever they could find … the sort of desperate-looking urchin in a musical … our drama teacher managed to find a part for me playing it.”
 — Mindy Kaling’s new book comes out today. Buy it; she is great! NPR has an interview with her (above) and an excerpt from the book (so does Scribd). At the very least look at the back cover.