Chris Lilley Quotes
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
-
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
-
I'm such a foodie, and I actually think I would rather lose my hearing than my taste.
-
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.
-
Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
-
I have always battled injustice. As a child, I used to fight on the side of my friends when boys terrorized them.
-
Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
-
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.
-
I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.
-
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.
-
Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
-
Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.
-
When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
There's no time for boys in my life right now.
-
When people go through something rough in life, they say, 'I'm taking it one day at a time.' Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.
-
It's extraordinary what that song has been used for - I think a lot of people who have gotten into trouble, have attached themselves to that song, and I think a lot of it is Kate's wonderful voice is there, in a sort of reassuring and loving way, and it just makes them think that perhaps there is going to be that type of love out there for them.
-
I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.
-
Boating on the lake is one of my favorite summer activities.
-
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
