Nick Kroll Quotes

There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

The relationship I have to everyday life is very European. We have a different relationship with religion, with faith, with nudity, with sex, with food.

The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.

The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

In Africa... age is not important over there. They don't care.

Sitting down to a meal with an Indian family is different from sitting down to a meal with a British family.

Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.

To us in Asia, rice is such a staple, we take it for granted. I didn't even think about how I made it until I came to the Western world.

I remember so clearly from when I was five years old, my mom and dad arguing over - not over whether it was better, but whether it was proper or whether it was correct to eat with a fork or to eat with your hands, like we do in Sri Lanka. Proper. Like, what is the correct way to eat?

We all love animals. Why do we call some 'pets' and others 'dinner?'

Amazingly, we’ve become a culture that considers Twinkies, Cocoa Puffs, and Mountain Dew safe, but raw milk and compost-grown tomatoes unsafe.

There was nothing abnormal about it when homosexuality was the norm.

In Europe, they like everything you do. The mistakes and everything. That's a little bit too much.

Normal is all relative.

Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

It's written into the Constitution that you're allowed to pursue happiness. In England it would be considered a frivolous objective.

Culture is your operating system.

It's not that I'm against nudity. I'm German, I'm very open, in Germany they lay in the park naked. It's just the principle.

It's not considered polite in Russia to count the money in someone else's pocket.

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.

Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them.

People on the Continent either tell you the truth or lie; in England they hardly ever lie, but they would not dream of telling you the truth.

There's no such thing as a good or bad culture, it's either a strong or weak culture. And a good culture for somebody else may not be a good culture for you.

In America many things that are interesting are seen as odd.

Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.