Top 50 Nick Kroll Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I tend to play sort of douchey.”

— Nick Kroll

2. “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

3. “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

4. “My first concert isn’t that cool or ironic. I wish it had been like, “My first concert was the Backstreet Boys,” but the first concert I went to, I think, was this band called The Samples.”

— Nick Kroll

5. “Contrary to widespread belief, I do know something about science.”

— Nick Kroll

6. “It’s not that weird, but when I was in Peru, I ate a guinea pig. If you’re going to eat guinea pig, you call it cuy. Cute word for such a cute little animal that I ate a few times.”

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7. “My friends and family always thought I was pretty funny, but I don’t know if they thought I was get-my-own-show funny.”

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8. “Like most lazy upper-middle-class kids, American Studies seemed like a fun way to use your knowledge of TV to get an A.”

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9. “I like an otter. I like a sea lion. I like a walrus. That’s my favorite version of a sea creature.”

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10. “My thinking is, if we’re setting out to make comedy in which nothing is off limits, then everybody is fair game.”

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11. “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.”

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12. “My experience in TV is that it takes time for shows to find their way.”

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13. “Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes – and I’m not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “I was, like, a history major, and I minored in art and Spanish, but I found myself gravitating toward media studies as time went on.”

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16. “Whether it’s corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.”

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17. “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.”

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18. “I feel like we have so many different ways to express ourselves now, and I relish, I feel very lucky to be doing comedy.”

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19. “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

20. “I’m really into pandas right now. They’re really scratching an itch for me. They’re so goddamn cute.”

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21. “Although I’m a comedian, I’m also an amateur survivalist.”

— Nick Kroll

22. “I know it’s going to sound cheesy, but I love show business. I love doing comedy, I love that I get to do all this with my friends.”

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23. “As long as it’s not an easy, outdated stereotype and it comes from an interesting or emotionally driven place, then anyone can be made fun of.”

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24. “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.”

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25. “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.”

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26. “My goal was to do something that incorporated all the stuff I do and have it feel like something new, like it was hopefully taking the stand-up special paradigm and turning it on its head.”

— Nick Kroll

27. “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

28. “Anyone you give a ton of money to is going to go slightly crazy. I don’t think comedians are particularly special in that regard; they just are better or more vocal in their expressions of their craziness.”

— Nick Kroll

29. “I think that the web and its various facets are incredibly useful in just building a fan base and getting your chops better.”

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30. “Go ahead and make up a ton of lies about me. That’s way more interesting than pretending Wikipedia has any real information.”

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31. “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.”

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32. “The immediacy of public interaction is just unbeatable.”

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33. “It’s always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.”

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34. “Really, I just love doing comedy. Any form it takes is great, as long as I can keep doing it, you know? If I can do my show and ‘The League’ while also getting to do other bits, that’s awesome.”

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35. “For me, the goal wasn’t to turn the stand-up special on its head, but to do what I do specifically, and hopefully that reads as something new.”

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36. “I like the idea of people getting to know you from different angles and then realizing “That guy is also that guy!” “Oh, he does that!” I really like having a number of different ways to reach people.”

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37. “People want to consume what you’re putting out there, and you can create a really strong following of fans and admirers, and people who are invested in your career and your comedy.”

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38. “I like to think that the stuff I do is oftentimes collaborative, so to have other people in it felt natural.”

— Nick Kroll

39. “What business would judged on the first week that it’s in business?”

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40. “I found, especially with stand-up, that if a premise works, you can make the joke work. If a premise doesn’t work, you can’t force it to.”

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41. “A lot of times, you’re circling around a lot of things, and then you find that one person, or that little piece of dialogue, and it doesn’t always have to be in person.”

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42. “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.”

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43. “In New York, you are forced into having very public lives and observing all types of people, what they sound like, what they’re reading, what they smell like, what they are listening to, how they talk to their friends.”

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44. “It was easier to know a character’s point of view than it was to figure out what your point of view was.”

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45. “There’s one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he’ll be when he’s not holding a microphone.”

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46. “The one place I’ve seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you’re really shocked.”

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47. “I would be psyched to get a phone call from Al Sharpton. I need to find out who does his hair. It’s beautiful. It’s a gorgeous mane.”

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48. “I came to New York and started doing stand-up and improv, and started auditioning for commercials and voiceovers and stuff. My first job was on a pilot of that prank show called ‘Boiling Points’ on MTV.”

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49. “In general in comedy, there are fewer people making a ton of money and a lot more people making a living. For me, the goal is just being able to make exactly the show I wanted to make.”

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50. “I guess there should be somewhere on the Internet that feels like a source of sacred truth. But Wikipedia sure isn’t it.”

— Nick Kroll