Top 40 Chris Lilley Quotes

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

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

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 so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I’m always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I’m so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.

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.

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.

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

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

I’m not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais’ stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen’s things. But I’m not an expert on them. I’ve seen them once.

I don’t like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, ‘You’re the next character.’ People think that’s what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I’ve never done that at all.

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.

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 feel really qualified to write about Australia.

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

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

People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

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.

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

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

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

I’ve never been a 16-year-old girl.

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.

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

British comedy fans go crazy.

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.

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

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

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

It takes me ages to write stuff.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

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

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

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