Chris Lilley Quotes

Some people expect me to be funny all the time, and I'm not necessarily funny all the time.

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.

The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.

I don't think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.

I think one of the reasons all the comics I worked with dropped off the log so early, and a lot of them did - Tony Hancock, Frankie, Sid James, it's dreadful really - was the stress. You can only be as good or better than the last show, and there's the permanent aggro of hoping you get the right writers and the right material.

It's very difficult once you've been on telly because people know what you do. They give you a little bit of grace but then they're harsher if you're not funny, so you have to be funny.

Around year seven or eight, you'd kill yourself when you realized Norm had to enter and you had to come up with a new beer joke.

There are many problems with being a comedian: the travel, the late nights, the pressure, the fear of running out of funny things to say.

I don't regard myself as an entertainer. I don't think that's where my talents lie. It always feels a bit uncomfortable.

I'm a different guy on stage.

The biggest moment in our business is when you walk through that curtain, and if you don't believe in yourself, the fans won't believe in you or invest in you, and they see that.

For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world.

I hate getting my photograph taken; just because I'm a musician doesn't mean I should have to sell my soul and have pictures of myself on stage with a red face and sweaty armpits plastered over 'Heat!' every week. I'm not a model.

When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.

I once said that I never wanted to be a good guy or the 'baby face,' as we call it in the wrestling business. But you know, it is what it is, and I'll be whatever they want me to be. At the end of the day, we work for the WWE fans.

When I'm in public doing the glamorous-wife-of-rock-star persona, I don't want to disappoint, but when I act, I really like to leave all that behind.

It's a terrific responsibility trying to look right. There is so much to think about - clothes, makeup, hair. You have to look right for your fans.

I don't take my image seriously. I make fun of the fact that some people think I'm a romantic figure.

I'm having a tough time coping in showbiz. I'm absolutely terrified of it. Each time you walk out, somebody wants to click a picture.

I feel like an '8 Mile' Eminem compared to 'My Name is.' Whenever my name is brought up, it's in a 'Slim Shady' way, and it's funny, and I'm lighthearted, but at the same time, every once in a while, I like to take it seriously.

Interim belt is made for media and fans, not for me.

Edinburgh is the most pressurised environment to do comedy. You get an hour. There's no compere. You'd better be on the money straight away; you've got journalists in.

Your life could be falling apart, but for your audience, you have to put up a show.