Chris Lilley Quotes
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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Chicago still remains a Mecca of the Midwest - people from both coasts are kind of amazed how good life is in Chicago and what a good culture we've got. You can have a pretty wonderful artistic life and never leave Chicago.
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There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face just by walking into a room. It's unbelievable. And if I have that power, who am I to waste it, you know?
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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Just wearing all black comes from Johnny Cash. I'm on the road so much that if I wear all black, my clothes never get dirty. You can't tell if I've worn the same shirt twice.
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
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It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.
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Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.
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The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.
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And you stagger down to break your fast. Greasy bacon and lacquered eggs And coffee composed of frigid dregs.
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It does get strange when you realize people will hang around for hours to get a glimpse of you doing scenes outside.
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Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.
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I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.
