Chris Lilley Quotes

I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

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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.

  

  Cam Newton
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• 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.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Breakfast
  • Fish
  • Lunch

• 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.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Believe
  • Same
  • Generation

• '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.

  

  Patina Miller
  • School
  • Hair
  • Couple

• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Like

• 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.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• 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?

  

  J. J. Watt
  • World
  • Power
  • Feeling

• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
  • New
  • New York
  • Old

• 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.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Work
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Reading
  • Standardized

• Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Time
  • Help
  • Woman

• 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.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Design

• The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Perfection

• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Important
  • Success
  • Bridge

• 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.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Black
  • Road
  • Clothes

• 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?

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Done
  • Proud
  • Military

• It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Business
  • Brain
  • Pen

• Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Business
  • Ugly

• I am not going to show you my art. I am going to share it with you. If I show it to you it becomes an exhibition, and in time it will be pushed so far into the back of your mind that it will be lost. But by sharing it with you, you will not only retain it forever, but I too will improve.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Art

• I loved being in Cambridge. I think about it often. It was this great little capsule of time to me.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Time
  • Great

• I wanted to write songs about other people because I was sick of myself, basically. I didn't like myself very much. 'Ghostwriting' became an outlet for that. And then I could get back to get Jens Lekman again.

  

  Jens Lekman
  • People
  • Sick

• Rush Holt would be a fine senator. He's an actual physicist, which is neat. He cares very strongly about global warming, which is probably the single most pressing issue of our era.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Single

• I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

  

  Jeannette Walls
  • Up
  • Age
  • Cute

• I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • People