Chris Lilley Quotes
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I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.
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I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
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There are bits of me in all my characters.
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I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.
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When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.
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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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I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.
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I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.
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I have a massive guilt thing about money.
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I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, 'No, it's for me.'
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I've never been a 16-year-old girl.
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I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.
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I find teenage girls endlessly funny.
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In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
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I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.
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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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I'm so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I'm always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I'm so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.
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Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
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I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.
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I think surprises make TV entertaining.
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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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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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People were making fun of redheads before I came along.
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I met Kim Kardashian in a nightclub once, and she was really nice. Kanye was with her, but he didn't speak. He just looked at me.