Nick Kroll Quotes

The 12 years I was in Fleetwood Mac before were not particularly happy years. I was not in a very good place, psychologically, when I left. I didn't have a lot of confidence in what I was doing.

It's tough being me.

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

People tell me they idolise me, want to be like me, but I tell them, 'trust me, you don't want my life.' I've been a very tortured soul.

It doesn't matter how many people say 'well, everyone makes mistakes Ricky, you've had a great career you should be proud of yourself' but that doesn't mean much compared to what goes on between my ears.

I have no desire to look at myself.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

There was a sadness over me, a melancholy. That's always been a part of me - those are some of the things that lead you to the arts.

The fact of the matter is that when you're in pain emotionally about your life, the color of your skin does not matter.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

My 30s were a nightmare because I was so uncomfortable. If I could have unzipped myself and stepped out of my body, I would have done.

As a young woman, my own experience of looking at myself in the mirror is something that's plagued me in lots of ways.

I have not had tragic incidences in my life that have rocked my personal being. The thing that really has been my biggest enemy in this world has been pressure. And people. People who I love. People who look at me differently. The pressure is tough, man. I'm not gonna lie. It's the hardest part. Easily.

It's not always about external problems. It can also come from within, and it can happen to everyone, not only young girls but also boys.

People say nice things about me but they don't know what's been going on between my ears.

It is 11 years since I have seen my figure in a glass [mirror]. The last reflection I saw there was so disagreeable I resolved to spare myself such mortification in the future.

I argue with myself, get mad at myself, throw myself around the room and then apologize to myself.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.

[Relationships] do not cause pain and unhappiness. They bring out the pain and unhappiness that is already in you

Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

I realize now I didn't really want to die. I just wanted to stop the hurt and pain.