Chris Lilley Quotes

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring.

I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.

Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.

I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.

You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.

I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and I'm not really.

I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.

I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.

I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.

I find teenage girls endlessly funny.

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.

To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'

I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.

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

I really like Jeff Lewis and 'Flipping Out' and 'Interior Therapy.' I don't know why I'm obsessed with American real estate and renovation.

I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going "Ha-ha."

I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

I met Kim Kardashian in a nightclub once, and she was really nice. Kanye West was with her, but he didn't speak. He just looked at me.

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

It takes me ages to write stuff.

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.

People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.