Quotes from Chris Lilley

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

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.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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.'

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

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.

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

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

I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

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 show.

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.

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.

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

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

I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

It takes me ages to write stuff.

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

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

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

I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.