Latest Nick Kroll Quotes from Interviews

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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

  Dream, Thinking, President

  "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with Ashley Hoffman, time.com. February 21, 2017.

• Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner are the funniest dudes ever, and they have great careers on their own. They made great art in the '90s, and they still have dinner three times a week.

  Nick Kroll

  Art, Careers, Three

  "Nick Kroll and John Mulaney on Why Controversial Jokes Are Worth Doing If They're Funny". Interview with Ashley Hoffman, time.com. February 21, 2017.

• It's the independent movies. Most of these people never even got a wrap party on their movie.

  Nick Kroll

  Party, Independent, People

  Source: variety.com

• They're not so much fans of independent movies are they are of independent theatres. They like small theaters with a vague, septic smell. They're not wild about the newfangled theaters with the assigned seating.

  Nick Kroll

  Independent, Smell, Theatre

  Source: variety.com

• The thing that's the biggest bummer about any live show is a hot, sober room. So if it's during the day and people are a little buzzed, great.

  Nick Kroll

  People, Hot, Littles

  Source: variety.com

• 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

  Years, Trying, Honey

  Source: variety.com

• There's nothing better for hosting a show than a bunch of people daytime-whiskey drunk.

  Nick Kroll

  People, Drunk, Whiskey

  Source: variety.com

• I have what I guess is medically known as a farting problem.

  Nick Kroll

  Problem, Known

  Source: www.esquire.com

• The more you're able to understand how to do a good dramatic performance, that can inform your comedy. It all informs one another. And it keeps everything interesting.

  Nick Kroll

  Interesting, Able, Comedy

  Source: www.esquire.com

• You want to be gentle with the people you're working with if you know them.

  Nick Kroll

  People, Want, Gentle

  Source: www.esquire.com

• You get to have some bigger comedic moments with some very real dramatic stuff. All that in one makes for a fulfilling artistic job.

  Nick Kroll

  Jobs, Real, Stuff

  Source: www.esquire.com

• When you're playing something, hopefully, if you're doing your best, you're advocating for your character and you're not trying to think too much.

  Nick Kroll

  Character, Thinking, Trying

  "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.

• In real life, you care about other people, but at the end of the day you're like, "I'm acting upon whatever it is that I want or need."

  Nick Kroll

  Real, People, The End Of The Day

  "Jenny Slate and Nick Kroll Q&A: ‘My Blind Brother’ Stars Dig Deep On Complicated Characters You Can’t Help But Root For". Interview with Steve Greene, www.indiewire.com. September 23, 2016.

• You think you're going to be on TV a year out of college and you're not. Then you tell people and it's embarrassing. And then it's not a big deal at all.

  Nick Kroll

  College, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

• My first job. I got fired from this MTV prank show, or I didn't make the cut of what ended up being, as we all know, Boiling Points. It was my first professional job and I was bragging.

  Nick Kroll

  Jobs, Cutting, Mtv

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Really, more than anything, The 2000 Year Old Man is a huge influence on all of our comedy, but specifically the live version of Oh, Hello.

  Nick Kroll

  Men, Years, Comedy

  Source: www.avclub.com

• No doubt there are people who are our guests [ in Oh, Hello] who are more famous, but to me, Mel Brooks is the most famous person. So that was really cool.

  Nick Kroll

  People, Doubt, Guests

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  Saws, Hello, Inspired

  Source: www.avclub.com

• It's almost worse because you think that you're mature and classic when you're in the newsie cap jazz phase. It's not a great look, a young person trying to seem old and mature and cultured. That's a summarily not-cool look.

  Nick Kroll

  Thinking, Trying, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I've decided to just keep doing Oh, Hello, where I play an older man who thinks he's very cultured. That clearly has not gone away.

  Nick Kroll

  Men, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I was going to have Brian La Croix do a cameo on Degrassi. But, unfortunately, the scheduling didn't work out. When I was in Toronto, they weren't shooting. To me, that would've been a pretty crazy meta experience.

  Nick Kroll

  Crazy, Work Out, Toronto

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'm sure there are people who say like, "I was wearing weird emo eyeliner," but there's something pretty embarrassing about the jazz phase.

  Nick Kroll

  Emo, People, Phases

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Robert Altman made that movie Kansas City about the jazz scene in the city, and we saw that band all together, and that was an amazing show. That's what I got into. I like jazz.

  Nick Kroll

  Cities, Kansas City, Together

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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

  New York, Couple, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

• Music was not a big deal to me when I was in middle school. And then I slowly became a big jazz fan. Even more than concerts, a lot of my high school time was spent going to jazz clubs in the city.

  Nick Kroll

  School, Cities, Clubs

  Source: www.avclub.com