Quote

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

Chris Lilley

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Chris Lilley
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: November 10
Comedian
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Sydney
NSW
Australia
Intention
Hero
Built
Comedy
Never

More quotes by Chris Lilley

Image
It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.
Chris Lilley
Image
I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
Chris Lilley
Image
You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
Chris Lilley
Image
I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
Chris Lilley
Image
Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
Chris Lilley
Image
It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
Chris Lilley
Image
I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
Chris Lilley
Image
I'm pretty lucky. I don't get too many haters.
Chris Lilley
Image
I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.
Chris Lilley
Image
I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.
Chris Lilley
Image
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.
Chris Lilley
Image
I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
Chris Lilley
Image
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
Chris Lilley
Image
Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.
Chris Lilley
Image
Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.
Chris Lilley
Image
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.
Chris Lilley
Image
Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going Ha-ha.
Chris Lilley
Image
Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.
Chris Lilley
Image
I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
Chris Lilley
Image
I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
Chris Lilley