Chris Lilley Quotes
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I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.
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I feel really qualified to write about Australia.
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I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
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I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.
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I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
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People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.
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You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.
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It takes me ages to write stuff.
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I think surprises make TV entertaining.
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It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
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To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'
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I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
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I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.
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Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going "Ha-ha."
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I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know why I'm obsessed with American real estate and renovation.
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When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.
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I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.
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I think it just really excites me, the idea of delving so far into a character that people actually believe it's real, and I start to believe it's real. It's a strange thing to say, but it's the thrill of getting all the details right and being so absorbed in the character that people go along with the illusion.
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I guess my performance at school was doing school musicals, so I was a knight as well at the back of the stage in Camelot. It was all those kind of things. It wasn't the stuff that I wanted to do. The real funny character stuff came out when I was in control of it myself and writing it myself.
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I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.
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You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
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Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
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I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.
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I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.
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I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
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I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.
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I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
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I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations." And then I started to realize that I wanted to mix it up a bit, so I started to doing songs, and I had a little keyboard onstage and would bring in little props. Then I thought about the idea of talking about a character and becoming the character onstage. So, it sort of morphed into being stand-up that was more character based, and I found that's the stuff I got the better reaction from and was more exciting for me.
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I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.
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I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.
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