Chris Lilley Quotes
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 like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
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My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.
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There's no time for boys in my life right now.
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A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
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The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
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I'm drawn towards people who have a little pathos and a little dark side, and I feel the same towards fictional characters.
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I used to be a pretty hard-core iPhone fan. But over time, I grew more and more frustrated with the lousy service on AT&T. My iPhone simply could not reliably make and hold a phone call. Not just in New York and San Francisco, where I spend a lot of time, and where AT&T's service has been notoriously bad for years.
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I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
