Chris Lilley Quotes

I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe they were quite frank initially, but then they did one thing which went wrong.

What's now shocking is I can't say anything publicly without it having a life. Not because I have extraordinary views but because people are keen on conflict, so they'll make that the story.

We've had a lot of controversy in our career, and it's never been intentional.

People say bad things about me. I've had people tell me, "You know, Rush, I've been telling people to listen to you and listen to you, and I finally get 'em to do it, and then you say something so offensive, and they look me, 'You listen to this?' And I'm tired of defending you, Rush. Why do you say stupid things?" I know what this is like.

There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.

Lotsa people want to hurt me. That's the price you pay for being a big mouth.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

Sometimes, when you see the newspaper and you read something I said, you say, 'Oh, I can't believe he said that.'

I think back to some of the things Harry said and some of the things I said trying to be funny. If I said them now, it would be on the front page of every newspaper in the country.

People hate us for showing stuff, and they hate us when we say, 'Fine, we won't show it anymore.'

I joined Twitter and you read a lot of the comments. You're biting your lip and you want to reply but you know a headline will be made from it and you don't want to give people the satisfaction.

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

You had better not be resolving against individual action or there will be no end to it. Tomorrow it will be me you censure; then you.

If you’re going to be in national politics you have to maintain a thick skin.

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

'Lolita' was a great wound in the side for me. I stuck my neck out maybe further than I should have and castigated the studio for not getting behind it.

What's funny is, when I made 'Saw,' I got accused of being a fascist, when I made 'Insidious,' I got accused of being godless, and now I made the 'Conjuring' films, and I'm accused of being too much God.

It sounds odd, but it's almost hard to find a piece of negative press about myself.

Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not call forth a response; it calls forth the desire for a bigger scandal.

Negative press is always going to come out.

I've done 290 movies and have lost 200 movies for my outspokenness.