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

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Chris Lilley
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: November 10
Comedian
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Sydney
NSW
Racist
Awful
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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.
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I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
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I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.
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I guess my performance at school was doing school musicals, so I was a knight as well at the back of the stage in Camelot. It was all those kind of things. It wasn't the stuff that I wanted to do. The real funny character stuff came out when I was in control of it myself and writing it myself.
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I didn't do very well academically I was always in the bottom class.
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I'm not really a management-type person. It doesn't suit my personality to be bossing people around.
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Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
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I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
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I have a massive guilt thing about money.
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It's barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
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I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
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People are always nice I never get anything mean said to me on the street.
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In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
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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.
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Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.
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I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.
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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.
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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.
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If you over-think, it affects things too much I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
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