Quote of the Day (Mindy Kaling, on Her Most Inspirational Beauty Icon)

“Who is the beauty icon that inspires you the most? Is it Sophia Loren? Audrey Hepburn? Mine is Nosferatu, because that vampire taught me my number-one and number-two favorite beauty tricks of all time: avoid the sun at all costs and always try to appear shrouded in shadows.”—Actress-writer Mindy Kaling, Why Not Me? (2015)

Well, different strokes for different folks, I suppose. But you must admit that this “fashion icon’s” nails are super high maintenance, don’t you think?

(The image accompanying this post is from the 1979 remake of Nosferatu the Vampyre, starring Klaus Kinski as the title character.)

Quote of the Day (Mindy Kaling, on a Type of Show the Networks Want Now)

“He leaves sonnets pinned to the corpses. The murdered prostitutes all have the first names of Jane Austen heroines. The kindly police commissioner’s name is Chuck Dickens. The whole thing takes place in a tough housing project in Newark, called Stratford-up-by-Avon. A melancholy English actor plays the lead in this mystery-drama, and he uses his accent no matter what country it takes place in. This is everyone’s mom’s favorite show.”—Mindy Kaling, on one of “the kinds of shows the networks seem to be clamoring for lately” (in this case, the “hot serial killer who’s kind of literary”), “Shouts and Murmurs: Coming This Fall,” The New Yorker, Aug. 10, 2015