Quotes by Nick Kroll - Page 3

It's the saddest year in movies. We've got "Manchester," "Moonlight," "Chronic," "Jackie" ... it's sad when "American Honey" is the happiest film of the year and it's about runaways aimlessly trying to figure out their lives with no parental figures.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Honey
Trying
Years
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For me, I was literally trying to stay afloat. I never actually thought I would get my own sketch show. So the idea that one day I would have my own show is pretty wild. But once I got it, I thought, 'Yeah, this is exactly what I always wanted to do.'
Nick Kroll / Actor
Yeah
Always Me Day
Afloat
Wild
Exactly What
Me Day Always
Literally
Sketch
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The height of my athletic achievement was in 8th grade when I was the point guard for my Jewish day school basketball team. We played in a public school league and, amazingly, went undefeated. I say 'amazingly' because our power forward was 5 ft. 6 in.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Achievement
Basketball Team
Height
Point Guard
Public School
Undefeated
Jewish
Amazingly
Grade
Guard
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I have so many funny friends that I hang out and do bits with, and the fact that we can hire each other is amazing. I asked all of them to help make 'Kroll Show' the best that it can be. I'm selfishly trying to use their funny genius for my own benefit.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Bits
Benefit
Hang
Hire
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My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to find stuff on the day; and we always do find something. That's the advantage to having actors who are, in their own right, writers.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Advantage
Thinking
Together
Writing
Good Always Together
Good Script
Improvise
Script
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I guess my first big break was getting the hit show 'Cavemen' on ABC. People made fun of it, but it was a huge opportunity for me and moved me out to L.A., where I learned a ton about acting and how much I didn't want to be in makeup for four hours a day.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Break
Makeup
Moved
Abc
Opportunity Me Day
Big Break
How Much
Huge Opportunity
Ton
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I usually need to read emails to actually wake up. I'll read these and Twitter, and my brain will start to get going about what a narcissistic monster I am. I read on Twitter who is talking about me. I'll also start making jokes for the day based on what I read on Twitter.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Brain I Am Me
Brain Me I Am
Emails
For The Day
Monster
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Kashi looks like twigs, so it makes me feel like I'm healthy. This cereal has been with me since childhood. Once a year in my family, we had a junk food day. I could eat Cocoa Crisps and Fruit Loops. Now I'm back eating Kashi. As much as I hate to admit it, my mother has won.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Cereal
Childhood
Eating
Fruit
Healthy
Junk
Junk Food
Looks
Admit
Won
Once A Year
Twig
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I think, in storytelling, people want to see triumph, and so it's usually nice to start with failure and see someone somehow rise above it. People like to see people try. And they like to see people fail for comedy, and they like to see people succeed for the drama and emotion.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Emotion
Rise Above
Triumph
Rise
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Wikipedia is a strange thing. Whoever gets there first, you know, they decide. Like the picture: You can't choose it! You can't be like, 'You know, I hate that picture of me doing stand-up from 2005 - that doesn't exemplify who I am.' You take it down, and someone puts it back up.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Wikipedia
Hate I Am Me
Back Up
Puts
Strange Thing
Whoever
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Between podcasts and places like Funny or Die or CollegeHumor, there are so many venues to get the word out. It makes it difficult in that there's a never-ending desire for content, so you have to constantly be turning stuff out, but that makes you better and more prolific in general.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Never Ending
Venues
Turning
Prolific
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In, like, seventh or eighth grade every day after school, my friend Andrew and I would watch 'Wayne's World.' And I think it's a great example of a sketch effectively turned into a movie and a story that really works with a good journey. Not easily accomplished, but such a good journey.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Accomplished
Andrew
Eighth Grade
Wayne
Good Great Journey
Effectively
Eighth
Grade
My Friend
Seventh
Sketch
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I think Trump thinks of himself as pretty important, and now rightfully so - because he's the President of the United States. You gotta dream big, and we're all so proud of what the Donald has been able to accomplish... following through on his dreams of taking fast food dumps on a plane.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Dream
President
Thinking
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I feel incredibly lucky at this moment in my career to get paid to do basically exactly what I always wanted to do. I appreciate that in general. But you know, like any job, a job is a job, and there are days that are going to be boring, or you have a boss you don't like, or people you work with.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Jobs
Appreciate
Careers
People
Work Always Moment
Work Moment Always
Exactly What
Incredibly
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The first movie that I ever said was my favorite movie - and I've said for the longest - is 'The Producers,' Mel Brooks' original 'Producers.' The two lead performances from Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder are both unstoppable performances and then supported by amazing supporting characters throughout.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Zero
Brooks
Producers
Unstoppable
Wilder
Original
Favorite Movie
Gene
Performance
Longest
Mel Brooks
Supporting
Throughout
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Mel Brooks came to see Oh, Hello in L.A. Mulaney and I had a meeting with him, and we invited him to come to the show, and he saw the Oh, Hello show live in L.A. To me, he's the most famous person. Having him come to our show that was so inspired by both of us loving The Producers and all his movies.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Hello
Inspired
Saws
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It was sort of in the jam-band era and it was at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester [New York], right where I grew up. I actually went back there a couple years ago when I was on tour for Kroll Show. I performed at that theater, which was really cool to go back to the first place I'd gone to a concert.
Nick Kroll / Actor
New York
Couple
Years
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I didn't have any terrible survival jobs. The main job I had before I was able to transition over to acting full-time was working at an after-school program at a middle school teaching improv and standup. So even when I had a regular job, I was still lucky enough to be doing the stuff I loved in some way.
Nick Kroll / Actor
After School
Middle School
Survival
Full-Time
Improv
Standup
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There's just a feeling, when you're just an actor - I have great admiration for people who are just actors. I don't understand it, the idea of waiting to get cast, being at the whim of others. I find it incredibly powerless and frightening, so that's why I've been constantly trying to create my own content.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Admiration
Frightening
Ideas
People
Powerless
Waiting
Whim
Great People Find
Incredibly
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We all suffer in our own way; like, life is miserable. And I'm not, 'Oh, I'm a stand-up who's sad,' but the reality is that just about everyone is quietly unhappy. I don't think that pertains to comedians specifically. I think most people look at themselves in the mirror and are not happy with what they see.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Miserable
Unhappy
Comedians
Quietly
Specifically
Suffer
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I had a world theme at my Bar Mitzvah: each table was a different country. I had a miserable time. There was one picture of me, and I'm wearing a double-breasted suit. There were all these people having fun, and I'm just standing there. I look like a corporate lawyer who just found out he's not making partner.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Bar Mitzvah
Corporate
Fun
Having Fun
Miserable
Mitzvah
Standing
Theme
Time World Me
Picture
Bar
Time Look World
Wearing
Partner
Suit
Table
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I gave the graduation speech at my high school. Not because I was valedictorian but because the grade voted for me to do it. And I gave a slightly contentious speech. I was a little critical of the administration. But for a long time it said on Wikipedia that I took my balls out and exposed myself to the crowd.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Long
School
Speech
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In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods. Now I go hiking with a bunch of my comedy buddies. We talk about our emotions. I also do a lot of writing on hikes, just to get the blood flowing and the ideas moving.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Blood
Bunch
Comedy
High School
Ideas
Mountain
Moving
Ran
School
Vermont
Woods
Writing
Talk
Buddies
Read
High
Emerson
Farm
Flowing
Hikes
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My best friend, Andrew Goldberg - and this is genuinely not me trying to cross-promote, but this new Netflix show I'm doing called Big Mouth is about me and my best friend, Andrew Goldberg, from childhood - but there was a year when I went to his house after school every day and we watched Wayne's World and ate Doritos.
Nick Kroll / Actor
House
School
Years
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A comedian is sort of like a wild animal. It really just depends on where you catch them. Sometimes they want to cuddle up, and sometimes they'll snap at you. But for me, more often than not, if I'm talking to somebody who makes their living in comedy, it'll be a very thoughtful conversation driven from an emotionally honest place.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Animal
Comedian
Comedy
Conversation
Depends
Driven
Honest
Talking
Thoughtful
Wild Animal
Wild
Catch
Emotionally
Snap
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One of the worst things about being an actor, besides people being nice to you and getting free stuff all the time - but really, one of the worst things is not knowing what's coming next. You could shoot a pilot, and they could have you on hold for six months waiting to find out what is going to happen with the show, and you're locked into it.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Being Nice
Free Stuff
Knowing
Locked
Nice
Not Knowing
People
Waiting
Time Free People
Besides
Pilot
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When I first got to New York, Comedy Central was the only place to go if you weren't on HBO or network. And then FX, Adult Swim, and other sort of ventures came up, and all of a sudden there were other places to go, and I think Comedy Central is making a concerted effort to become a place where smart, funny weirdoes can come and do their stuff.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Hbo
Swim
Central
Comedy Central
Concerted Effort
Network
Sudden
Ventures
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Don't watch Kroll Show if you don't have a Nielsen box. I honestly don't care. Feel free to DVR it and not watch it because that will somehow help my ratings maybe, but honestly I'm talking to the four of you with a Nielsen box. If you have a Nielsen box, like, who are you? Where do you live? How do I find you? You're a unicorn and I don't believe that you exist.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Believe
Care
Talking
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It's a real democratic time for comedy, and I think my special is a sign for that. You don't have to just be a classic stand-up to get a special, or you don't just have to be on Saturday Night Live to do characters and sketch on TV. The web has allowed me to show that there are different ways to make people laugh, and the special is a combination of those things.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Character
Night
Real
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I had PubLIZity, I had Oh, Hello, I had Bobby and Farley - all of these sketches that were really these duo sketches, but the relationship between them is really what catapulted them forward. A lot of that, I think, came from Wayne and Garth, these two similar guys - they're Midwestern metal guys - but in the end, they're quite different because there's an alpha and a beta. And I think that model became very present for me on Kroll Show.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Guy
Thinking
Two
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For me, the best characters are the ones that feel fully formed inside and out, so I try to have a very clear vision of exactly what they would wear, top to bottom, who they are, what their backstory is, what their family situation is, who are their friends, just creating as much of a three-dimensional character [as possible]. Because I think you could do a very broad character, but as long as there's some emotional truth to them you can get away with really crazy things.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Character
Crazy
Emotional
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This is a perfect example of the power and ridiculousness of a website like Wikipedia. I did give a slightly contentious graduation speech, where I decided not to be funny as my classmates had hoped, which was why I was chosen. I was not valedictorian, that's for sure. Instead, I talked about the failure to communicate between the administration and the teachers and students. That's what was contentious about it. At some point, somebody wrote about that incident on my Wikipedia page. And then somebody added the bit about me exposing my genitals to the crowd.
Nick Kroll / Actor
Teacher
Giving
Perfect
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