Tracey Ullman Quotes

As I get older, I just prefer to knit.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

I've never looked ahead very much in my life. I've never had any grand plan from the outset. I had no burning ambition to do what I do.

It's sometimes shocking to find out what people really believe in.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

I just want to do good work.

A lot of stand-up comedy is embarrassing: too many idiots doing it in orange neckties against brick walls. I find most sitcoms embarrassing, too, because they seem so forced.

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from.

I grew up with Jilly and Tamsin driving Volvos. But I wasn't one of them ... I always felt more comfortable with Cockney and working-class people. My heroes were the Beatles and people like Michael Caine.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.

I became an American in 2006. It got me thinking about what is my America and what's my perception of America.

As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last.

I just love to impersonate people, and I impersonate people because I find them fascinating.

There were no examples of girls like myself becoming successful actresses. To be an actress in England was a serious, upper-middle class girl's profession. I just thought I would never be accepted unless I pretended to become somebody I wasn't.

There's nothing I won't attempt.

It makes you more open, it gives you perspective, having a child.

It's funny - if you impersonate somebody, they have no idea it's them.

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

I'm fascinated by Bollywood.

The working classes in England were always sentimental, and the Irish and Scots and Welsh. The upper-class English are the stiff-upper-lipped ones. And the middle class. They're the ones who are crippled emotionally because they can't move up, and they're desperate not to move down.

I've always had to create my own markets and I've always been at a juncture in my career.

There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving.

I'm sick of environmentalism.

My mum would like to see me on the cover of 'Good Housekeeping' demonstrating children's toys with some nice lipstick on.

I like being the odd one out in L.A. Because if you conform, you become something you hate. I love being the odd one out. It's not about 'Look at me! Look at me!' It's about really becoming someone else.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Every character I do is based on someone I know.

Why does everyone think the future is space helmets, silver foil, and talking like computers, like a bad episode of Star Trek?

I hope I never get so hard up I have to do advertisements. I've gotten ridiculous offers.

I like infomercials.

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.