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" When you start out, it sometimes feels like you're fighting audiences every night just to prove that you're funny. "
Nick Kroll
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" I think my goal was just to do comedy, honestly. It still is. Whatever form that took or takes, it doesn't matter. "
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" 'Cavemen' was obviously a big opportunity. I learned a lot about how to act and about the politics of being on a set every day. Like, who do you have to listen to and who you don't have to listen to. "
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" An autograph is actually refreshing because everyone has cameras now and wants a selfie. That's why I carry signed headshots with me, to give out. "
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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
Hate
Me
Picture
" 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. "
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Know
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" I miss the New York bagel but miss the New York bialy even more. It's a great compromise of bagel feeling with less dough stuffing. "
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Great
Feeling
" 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. "
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" Without realizing it, I think I've wanted to do a sketch show since I was, like, 11 years old. Like everybody else in comedy, I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live,' and I was doing characters with my friends. "
Nick Kroll
Friends
Night
Think
" 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. "
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Job
Loved
" 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
Team
Achievement
School
" I can't play video games or games on my phone because I'll go into a deep vortex, and no one will hear from me for weeks. "
Nick Kroll
Phone
Deep
Play
" Comedy can't be done in a vacuum, and you can't do it on your own. So if you have a community of people, it's a great symbiotic relationship. "
Nick Kroll
Community
Great
Relationship
" I won't share everything, both in my act or in interviews. Some of the people who become the most famous are the most self-revelatory, and I'm like, 'No, it's just not worth it to me.' "
Nick Kroll
Worth
Worth It
Famous
" 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
Wake Up
Me
I Am
" 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
Start
Succeed
Failure
" I was never a western guy, but I happened upon 'Tombstone' one day on TV and was really sort of taken with it. It's one of those movies that, if it's on TV, I can't turn it off. I just have to watch the whole thing. "
Nick Kroll
Day
Turn
Never
" The more variance I have in my days, the more exciting each thing is and the more I enjoy doing it. "
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Exciting
Days
More
" 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
Thought
Wild
Me
" 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. "
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Crazy
You
" 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
People
World
Me
" I speak some Spanish. I would love to go make a movie in Spanish. I'd love to be in an Almodovar movie or an Inarritu. "
Nick Kroll
Movie
Love
Go
" Meeting someone you admire, and then that person's like, 'I'm a fan of your work' - it's a really neat feeling. "
Nick Kroll
You
Admire
Fan
" I did, like, one or two plays in high school, but I don't think I realized I wanted to do comedy until I got to college, and I started doing improv and saw the Upright Citizens Brigade perform and did workshops with them. "
Nick Kroll
School
High School
Two
" Part of making art is learning how you make it best. I'm not great at sitting down at a desk and writing for three hours. I write best verbally, talking through an idea with people, so I do my best work when I collaborate. "
Nick Kroll
Great
Work
People
" Usually, one of the first things I think about when I'm developing a character is what they're wearing. I mean, it sounds very cheesy and very actor-y, but it really does help me figure it out. "
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Help
" If you talk to most ambitious people, people who are high achievers, they're rarely at peace with what they're doing because they need an engine to keep moving. "
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Doing
Need
Peace
" Comedy is so collaborative. You're going to come up with better jokes with people you like joking around with. It just makes sense. "
Nick Kroll
Like
Better
Comedy
" 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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Me
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" Oftentimes the shows that don't work help you get it right. "
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