Chris Lilley Quotes

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I always wanted to tell stories and act.

I was always a performer even as a child; I loved delving into various characters.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.

Acting is the ability to dream on cue.

As a child, I was always interested in drama and performance.

When I was a kid, I used to make up all these characters. I love comedy a lot, and I don't get to do it often. Somewhere in the middle, I shifted into doing drama.

I wanted to be an actor. That was my real goal. But I wasn't any good at it, so I wrote my own material and acted through that. That's my idea of fun. I get to be all these things in the songs.

If I can't find real situations that interest me in real life, then I'll go and write them in play form.

If you have a very good concept of your character, you can snap into it.

To me acting originally became an extension of game playing.

Acting is an expression of imagination. No firsthand knowledge is necessary.

I've always liked being on the performance end of it. I've come up with different ideas, but as far as being a creative writer, I'm not sure about that. I've always liked the performance end of it and wrestling, getting in the ring in front of a live crowd.

I think acting is a work of imagination.

As an actor, our very palette is one of imagination. So it is a walk onto an empty space and then imagine the world beyond it is what we do.

I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you're on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

I'd love to do drama if it was interesting.

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.

Acting is the most communicative thing I can imagine doing.

I went into acting because I'm easily bored. Acting seemed to give vent to a lot of different feelings.

I was Aladdin, and then I was Captain Von Trapp from 'Sound Of Music' when I was 7 or 8, and then King Arthur. I was always the lead. I've always enjoyed being onstage, acting obnoxious, being someone that wasn't me, hiding behind a character.

I've always performed. I've done plays at home.

Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances.