Nick Kroll Quotes

Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.

Each character represented a trait that resides in me.

When you have a fresh point of view that comes from the right side of the heart, it's just so valuable. You can take it or not take it, but just that perspective can give you a lot of strength or make you reflect on a lot of things.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story.

Most of your suffering comes from the lack of understanding of yourself and others.

Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.

In the movie I realized, I had the luxury of getting to see how the other person feels.

My point of view is, I'm just a person, and there are times when I look at other people and think, 'My God, they spend so much time thinking about things that seem so absurd.' But I'm sure people must think the same thing about me.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I always write to understand my place in the world. I can see myself and my life unfold on the page, and I can understand my strengths, my weaknesses - I can see where I need to step up a bit.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.

I discovered myself!

I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.

One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

It's best to know a little about where you're coming from and why you've arrived where you are.

I will never actually be able to know what it's like to go through life in someone else's body.

I try and put myself in other peoples eyes, as I dont feel I've got anything new to say about myself at 23.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.