Nick Kroll Quotes

I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have.

I'd make a good friend, not mother. I'm too selfish. I think a lot of mothers are selfish and they end up having children, but I don't want to put some small tiny person through that.

I have always been a mother. When I was kid, I mothered my younger brother. I mothered my parents and even my boyfriends.

That, Madam, is my misfortune, not my fault.

When you smile the world smiles with you, but when you tax you tax alone.

We all have challenging family relationships, and trying to balance that between our dreams and what we feel compelled to do is, I think, a challenge that's easily relatable.

You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

The women here are the ones that hold the families together. So if my mom were to be unhappy with me, in a way, it would be like I would have lost my entire family.

I'd be a bad father. I'm too self-involved.

I want to be a child and not a mother, and I feel guilty about this.

I frequently say that I never share blame, I never share credit, and I never share desserts!

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

Oddly, I believe that emotional proximity we feel to close loved ones makes it hard to be honest with them about feelings of depression.

I keep hearing from readers who say 'Hoax' helps them understand their own family a little bit better.

I'm not a great father and there have been many occasions, when I fall short, but I'm genuinely trying.

I've learned a lot from the investigations and the trial. It's all my fault.

How families interact is not some abstract concept of mother, son, father, daughter; it has to do with economic circumstances, the work they do, the time they can spend with each other.

I'm pretty selfish, I think. I'm probably a terrible dad. I don't do too much with my kids. Obviously I love them and everything, but I just stay here in the studio all day.

My relationship with my father is fine. Every relationship has its ups and downs because bad things happen in all relationships. But for me, I can only write about what I'm feeling in the moment and something that actually happened to me.

Come to think of it, even though I've received tons of fan letters and presents from everyone, I've never written anyone back. How rude of me!

Mom only gets angry when I don't visit her enough. She raised six kids to be 100 percent independent and work for everything we achieve. I mean, we don't expect anything for free.

I enjoyed playing with my mother. This was something she was good at. There were plenty of things she couldn't do, had never been taught to do, didn't need to do because there was someone to do them for her, and she certainly couldn't have coped alone with a tiny child.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

We must look for our own blame to find our own personality.

Hey, you created me! I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!