Chris Lilley

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

— Chris Lilley

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

— Chris Lilley

I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.

— Chris Lilley

I have a massive guilt thing about money.

— Chris Lilley

I think surprises make TV entertaining.

— Chris Lilley

I've never been a 16-year-old girl.

— Chris Lilley

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

— Chris Lilley

It takes me ages to write stuff.

— Chris Lilley

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

— Chris Lilley

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

— Chris Lilley

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

— Chris Lilley

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

— Chris Lilley

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

— Chris Lilley

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

— Chris Lilley

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

— Chris Lilley

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

— 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…

— Chris Lilley

Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many…

— Chris Lilley

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're…

— Chris Lilley

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…

— Chris Lilley

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…

— Chris Lilley

To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything…

— 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…

— Chris Lilley

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a…

— Chris Lilley

I think sometimes people become quite emotional about the characters as well, and that's pretty cool that you can get that emotion…

— Chris Lilley

I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the…

— 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…

— 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…

— Chris Lilley

I guess my performance at school was doing school musicals, so I was a knight as well at the back of the…

— Chris Lilley

Once I got into high school, any time I had to do a talk or a speech, I just loved being up…

— Chris Lilley

I think it just really excites me, the idea of delving so far into a character that people actually believe it's real,…

— 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…

— Chris Lilley

I started doing comedy just as myself, because I thought, "This is what's expected, you're meant to tell stories and do observations."…

— Chris Lilley

There are bits of me in all my characters.

— Chris Lilley

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.

— Chris Lilley

People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

— Chris Lilley

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

— Chris Lilley

I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

— Chris Lilley

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

— Chris Lilley

Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.

— Chris Lilley