Chris Lilley Quotes
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'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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I've never been a six-foot-tall, skinny model, so therefore, I want to create an illusion. People always think I'm taller than I am - not just because of the shoes I wear but because of the way I dress. It's all relatively streamlined.
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The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion.
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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The perfect day for me is waking up and having a cup of tea with my kids before I drive them to school; Then, I go into the studio and try and write some music for three or four hours and give up about noon.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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South Africans are caring, compassionate and loving people.
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I'm attracted to playing people who aren't necessarily straightforward.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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In the 1990s, the United States offered to help North Korea with its energy needs if it gave up its nuclear weapons programme.
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I do think faith is important when it introduces positivity into your life and you see it with love in your heart because there's so many people who unfortunately use faith for detrimental things or to justify detrimental actions.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!
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'The Practice' is one of my favorite shows of all time, and the first few seasons of that show were amazing, and then when they started winning the big case, it just got less interesting.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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I think people should look cute all the time.
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To snap my fingers and let it go away. Even if it takes the 3,000th hit with it, just let it all go away.
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Any performance I do, I give 110 percent.
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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.'
