A biography for Chris Lilleyhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.”
“In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.”
“Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.”
“I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years.”
“You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.”
“To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'”
“There are bits of me in all my characters.”
“I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.”
“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 like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.”
“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'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 didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.”
“I'll probably be still playing a school girl when I'm 60.”
“I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.”
“You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.”
“I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.”