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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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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When they write a bad review, and you agree with it, that's the worst feeling. When you know you've done what you wanted and the best you could and you love the outcome, then you look at everything differently. Not everyone's going to love everything you do.
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For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.
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For me, the driving force is the audience, and the day that stops, I will stop doing films. The day a part of me stops feeling like putting a smile on someone else's face or if I feel like I don't want to entertain anymore, then I will pack up and leave.
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For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
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I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
