Nick Kroll Quotes

You learn early as an actor that creating your own material is the only way to have any control.

As an actor, it's a relatively passive job unless you're generating your own content or writing your own content. So to a certain degree you're at the mercy of what is available, what you're reading, what you become passionate about, and ultimately, what people want to hire you for.

I find the roller-coaster ride of auditioning most challenging. It's always about putting yourself out there, being rejected, and then getting back out there and trying again.

I'm exceedingly proud of being an actor, but I never recommend it to anyone.

I'm sure it's not great fun for them, or for any parent, when their child says they want to be an actor, 'cos it's quite an uncertain business and it can be terribly hard for most actors.

I really want to try to become a great actress when I get older and continue to do what I'm doing now.

I've gotten a lot more comfortable with the audition process, but there's something that really turned me off initially when I was younger, to auditioning. The idea that I couldn't get to the person that was actually making the film really frustrated me.

There's so many more failures than successes for actors. It's like a phobia, fear of cancellation.

All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.

I don't really like to audition, and that works against me. It's bad to be an actor and not like to audition.

During my career as a standup and actor, I realized it was very frustrating for me to get hired because Hollywood was hiring a different kind of brother, you know, and I was doing political humor... In order for me to really have a long career, I'm going to have to learn how to write and produce for myself... I had no idea I was really going to like it and I'm very fortunate to be successful. But the idea was to always eventually create something for myself. That was the idea from the beginning when I went into writing and producing.

If people offer me decent roles in good films, of course I'll take it. But I just didn't like the actor lifestyle. You end up focusing all your energy on trying to get parts you don't even want.

I had interest in acting. I started as a drama major in college. I got to school and said, "What am I going to do with this?" But I didn't know anybody in the business, and it seemed like - I don't know. I had a teacher who said "Less than 1 percent of you will ever make a living being an actor." That was how we opened the semester.

I am lucky that I get to play a singer and an actress.

That's the insecurity with our job, because you never know where the next role is coming from. No matter how successful you are, there's always a fear of someone not wanting me to play something else.

I love acting. I had a backup option in writing or direction. But I have gone on to become an actor.

I did not choose acting as a career.

As an actress, all I can do is choose from the films I am offered.

I was the first person in the family to be an actor.

Sounding like I have agency in a song is important to me. I want to feel empowered by the music.

I would be happy if people just called me an actor.

I can only control what I can, which is what I'm able to do as an artist.

As an actor, you always feel like you're not going to work again. You're always unsure about how things are going to work out, and you start thinking you're going to just fade off into the distance.

I was about 15 when I decided that acting was what I wanted to pursue professionally.

I love proving myself wrong. A lot of actors lack confidence - even if you're doing really well, you kind of feel like this might be your last job.