Best Chris Lilley Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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. — Chris Lilley

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

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

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. — Chris Lilley

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. — Chris Lilley

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

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

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. — Chris Lilley

I feel really qualified to write about Australia. — Chris Lilley

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

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. — Chris Lilley

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

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

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

British comedy fans go crazy. — Chris Lilley

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. — Chris Lilley

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

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

There are bits of me in all my characters. — Chris Lilley

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

In spouse, I mostly hear "S.mouse," the name of Chris Lilley's blackface teenage rapper in Angry Boys. And — Augusten Burroughs

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

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

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. — Chris Lilley

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. — Chris Lilley

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

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

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.' — Chris Lilley