Chris Lilley Quotes

I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

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

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

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

I'm totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

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

British comedy fans go crazy.

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

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

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

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

People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

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

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

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

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

There are bits of me in all my characters.

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

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

Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.

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

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

When no one knows you, and you're just trying to break into stuff, it's so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it's just between you and the audience. There's no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you're doing.

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

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

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

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