Nicholas Kroll (Nick Kroll) Quotes

When you start out, it sometimes feels like you're fighting audiences every night just to prove that you're funny.

Nicholas Kroll

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• Salaries and wages must reflect the reality of the enterprise's economic performance; deviations from the planned performance should be reflected in pay.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Reality
  • Performance

• The first time that I ever saw Babe Ruth was in the Boston Red Sox clubhouse.

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • Time
  • Red
  • First

• It kind of scares me, the notion that we're going to be injecting ourselves into other countries' affairs when they're not posing a threat to our security. I wouldn't be telling Israel what to do.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Countries
  • Notion

• When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Thought
  • Story
  • Grandmother

• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Trying
  • School
  • Together

• In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • World
  • Free
  • Crime

• When I feel off, I read the 'Tao Te Ching' to get my equilibrium right. I started reading it in the eleventh grade.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Reading
  • Feel
  • Right

• When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I get recognized in the street really frequently, which is really shocking. I'm excruciatingly wary of any female under the age of 19. Even when some of them come up to me, they're usually very cordial, nice and polite.

  

  Ian Harding
  • Nice
  • Female
  • Polite

• Life isn't always really glamorous and fabulous. It's about encouraging people to go back to natural beauty.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • People
  • Life
  • Beauty

• I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets to the endgame too quickly. So I will be working on those things.

  

  Val McDermid
  • She
  • Think
  • Couple

• In Japan, you get on the bullet train or the airplane, and I loved the little speeches the stewardesses would do. They even do little speeches before you play gigs.

  

  Beck
  • Loved
  • Train
  • Airplane

• My grandfather started his autobiography before he died; he never finished it. I would like to finish his autobiography because I finished mine.

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Never
  • Finish
  • Grandfather

• No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Man
  • Changes
  • Been

• We - again, the, the, the, the bastardization and the demonization over the last few years of teachers and of unions and of collective bargaining, that is not the answer.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Years
  • Last
  • Collective

• Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Parents

• The world recedes; it disappears! Heav'n opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?

  

  Alexander Pope
  • World
  • Death
  • Eyes

• To be fearless in the Lord does not require us to be great and powerful men, but only to believe in the great and powerful God.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Great
  • God
  • Believe

• If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say it at all. And if you do have to say it, make it really funny so I can screenshot it and save it for later.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Funny
  • Nice
  • Save

• To me, writing is remembering something funny that happened, or maybe something I said seven years ago.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Writing
  • Funny

• Well, I always say the law was meant to be interpreted in a lenient manner. And that's what I try to do, is sometimes I lean to one side of it, sometimes I lean to the other.

  

  Irving Ravetch
  • Law
  • Sometimes
  • Try

• I think it's a real danger, as an actor, when you try to make some statement through your career about what the business should be doing or ultimately what your image should be or how you want to be perceived. I look at every project that comes along and say, "Is this something I can sink my teeth into and can do a good job on?" That's really how I choose roles.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Good
  • Real
  • Business

• When you start out, it sometimes feels like you're fighting audiences every night just to prove that you're funny.

  

  Nicholas Kroll
  • Funny
  • Prove
  • Audiences