Chris Lilley Quotes
I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that dogma is often evil.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
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My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.
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I've been incredibly lucky. I've worked in two iconic shows, 'Carry On' and 'EastEnders.' If it all ended tomorrow - and it could - I'd just be terribly grateful. I've been fortunate enough to do what I love and get paid for it.
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My room is like an antique shop, full of junk, and weird stuff. There's a big sword in there. And a taxidermy bird, and a couple of birdcages. And a lot of newspaper cuttings. I used to have a weird thing about cutting out morbid headlines from newspapers, and collecting them. I was fascinated with drowning, which is kind of strange.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I was actually not some sort of a child prodigy by any stretch.
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I've got great people who handle my schedule, and everything does revolve around the children. If there's a parents' night or an Easter bonnet parade or a Nativity play, whatever it might be, then I plan everything around that.
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I don't want people following me around, everywhere I go, people talking to me and stuff. I don't want to be walking down the street with a bodyguard. I don't think that will be an issue playing in L.A.
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I had short hair for a while, but I ended up loving it.
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When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
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Just thinking about that, if that were to really happen, if an alien were to come down and really abduct you, how terrifying and how earth-shattering would that be? Your whole world is just destroyed. God is destroyed. It's kind of a fascinating thing to think about.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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I like to record records in Los Angeles. It's less distracting than New York, where I was based.
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I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.
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I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
