Nick Kroll Quotes

I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so...anoraky.

My survival skills are very good for Hollywood. Beyond that, I'm not really sure.

I did a real boot camp once which with The Thin Red Line which was learning military exercises and this was far less strenuous. I really had a blast. We were all kind of thrown into the woods and we didn't have any of the modern conveniences that we take for granted. Learned how to survive without anything.

It's the little details I love. How to fletch your arrows with owl feathers, because owls fly silently, so maybe your arrows will, too. How to carry fire in a piece of smouldering fungus wrapped in birchbark. These are the things which help a world come alive.

I don't think I'd ever really survive the outdoors.

We live in such a consumer-based world. Everything we do, someone else has provided for us, so there is something really empowering about knowing that once I have found the right pieces of wood, I can start a fire and keep myself warm and skin an animal to eat and make its skin into leather.

I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.

I can't start a fire with two sticks or hunt rabbits or anything like that.

You step in with the Seth Rogens of the world, you better have some jokes.

I like the skill set required to be an outdoorsman - to cook food over fire and to climb rocks without ropes, to move around using nothing but yourself and maybe some rudimentary tools.

I guess what I find interesting is city folk are the least capable of survival of any human being.

Part of the beauty of wilderness schooling is that the overheads are very low. You want a classroom? Build a shelter from nature's store. You want to eat? Forage for it.

I know how to make a little bonfire, fight off some coyotes, or whatever we got to do.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

I'm Dave Chappelle and I'm a chronic masturbator.

I started studying herbalism and edible plants that existed in the wild. And then I realized, "Okay, cool. I know how to make a fire with sticks and I know how to build a shelter, but I live 90 percent of my life in an urban environment, so these skills aren't really going to help me because there aren't trees that grow in Los Angeles that I can just take a branch and make fire out of, because that wood isn't conducive for that. So I started learning urban survival skills.

Kevin James is going to do a couple of specials. One's called It's Getting Muggy In Here.

'Where's Bill going?' He's going to comedy death. Boom! He pops out of it with another joke. It's my particular style.

We all need a laugh and I guess you're just the one.

Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

Do you guys like impressions? "Why?" That was Socrates.

I preferred measuring deer tracks to tape - that I liked the wild liberty of the Red men better then the tyranny of my brothers.

You can't survive by sucking the juice from a wet mitten.

I always made people laugh, and everybody wanted me to sit at the table with them. I don't joke as much as I used to, but I can still be a little comedian every now and then.

I like comedies, and my brain sort of spins in that direction. So I'm really happy to say there were several smartass comments that come from me [on Star Wars].