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

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I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me. Chris Lilley

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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. Chris Lilley

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I went to a private boys' school, and we had girls in the last two years. Chris Lilley

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I find actors a little bit too self-conscious. Chris Lilley

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I've never been a 16-year-old girl. Chris Lilley

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I feel like I'm so normal. So normal it's boring. Chris Lilley

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

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I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class. Chris Lilley

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

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Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going, 'Ha-ha.' Chris Lilley

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

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'Saturday Night Live' is a very particular beast. What it celebrates are individuals who can stand out. I did good work there, but going onstage and saying, 'Hey! Hey! Look at me! Aren't I funny?' - that just wasn't my instinct. Chris Parnell

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I grew up Southern Baptist, so my experience was fairly conservative. Not archly so, but I think Memphis - when you get to certain parts of Memphis - are more liberal for sure. But I grew up, until I was about 13 or 14, in a section called Whitehaven, and then we moved to a suburb called Germantown - which is a pretty conservative area. Chris Parnell

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I think I always was a bit of a class clown, but I don't know how successful I was at that. I always think, when I read about people being class clowns, I imagine them being actually very funny, and I don't know that I was. But I tried to be, I think. Chris Parnell

It wasn't until I got into seventh grade, I think, that I realized that doing plays might be a fun thing, and so I auditioned for the school play - and got in, as it turned out. Chris Parnell

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After college, I went to Alley Theatre in Houston to work in their apprentice actor program. I thought I was gonna get discovered. It didn't happen. I moved back to Germantown, Tennessee, outside of Memphis, and taught at my old high school. Chris Parnell

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To be a teacher you have to have a very giving, selfless personality. I don't think I'm that selfless and giving. Chris Parnell

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When I hear people talk about juggling, or the sacrifices they make for their children, I look at them like they're crazy, because 'sacrifice' infers that there was something better to do than being with your children. Chris Rock

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